by Author Name Withheld 126

Created on: May 09, 2009

No, certainly not. They wear dark clothes and have pale skin. They wander around doing who knows what in the dark. They are evil... witches all of them... Burn them all! Honestly, what kind of question is this? Sure, judge everyone you want. I like feeling superior to others. I often feel that it is my place to worry about their lives and affairs.

Often, I feel inadequate and unhappy with my own life. Nothing makes me happier than to find some to criticize or single out. It makes me feel all the better about my own worth and failures. Otherwise, why would I debate the topic at all? I wouldn't really consider there to be two sides. I wouldn't worry that justification was needed and that there might be some flaw to my reasoning.

It is clearly these people who are the problem though. Of all the other articles up there deciding who to judge, this one stands out (as one of the only debates on the site) because we already know the answer. These people cannot be tolerated any longer. We already decided that the girls who dressed like streetwalkers were fine, but that was because they were most of our society. It really is best to just let them alone. Letting them go carries it's own reward, but what do these Goths have to offer?

Where is the eye candy? They don't even offer us disease or moral decay. Frankly, not even that many children to adore in their young arms. We can't keep tolerating that. I believe that my line of reasoning went something like this... Wait, it isn't fine to be intolerant to the gay kid anymore? Those Goth kids over there are kind of effeminate, are they still fair game? Yeah, and some of them are likely gay too? I had a clear winner.

I was worried for a while that tolerance was going to be a new way of life. Hopefully, we can all agree that someone needs repressed still with all the previous minorities gaining acceptance. Further, they all dress in these dark and scary clothes. Dark things scare me as a white American. I hate anything that is darker than my bright shiny white life. Honestly, I don't even know the difference anymore. These dark dressed people could be the terrorists. I'm scared of everything that is foreign to me.

In the end, you need to be socially acceptable. That means trying to be more like me. You need to make me feel safe and secure. That is why we have monsters isn't it? It makes it fine to hate, fear, and seek violence against those things that we find different. I think that I remember some education clunking around in my empty head now.

Wasn't it the origin of this culture that brought out this idea of the dark social monsters. It helped us ascend past the primitive monsters that were based on survival instinct alone. The point of literature from that time wasn't to help us find the sublime in the unknown. It wasn't to allow us to see the world in a different way without the burden of a repressive society. No, that isn't something I learned in school at all. We were taught to fit in, so scratch that idea.

I do remember that the Goth movement did eventually lead to Sci-Fi as a further means to step around the accepted dominant culture. It was the new unknown and we had new monsters. We really need to get our hate on for these people too because they are all the same. All trying to undermine our culture with their reformist ideas and different thinking. They can think what they want, but they better not flaunt it in my world... Don't ask and don't tell. I don't want to see it.

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