October 20, 2010 @ 11:38 p.m.
The staff at the White House is very excited that I wrote angry things about what's been happening on the pages on my blog that say "Slurs" and "How I feel about the harassment." The first search result at the top of the page of a Google search on the name Barack Obama says "Barack Obama arrives in Portland!" and at the end of that blog post it says "Inside the meltdown!" and more about fish and so on.
It's hard for me to believe that this President would encourage even one person to call another person the n-word even one time, on one day. So why is this President calling me gender-based slurs or any other kind of serious, very personal slur that goes on day after day? Eight months now, just of vagina names, from the media and the harassing celebrities and TV shows, newspapers, radio, movies, magazines, and more, and the government has been involved in the last 4 of those months.
I think it would really help to stop other people calling me those things if he stopped doing it himself, and if he encouraged everyone in government to stop doing it. I'm not asking for new laws to be passed, unless it's a general anti-bullying law that people who know a lot about bullying work on with legislators for a while and figure out how to get it right. I don't think that anyone should be going through what I'm going through; if the President turned around and started bullying all the people in the entertainment industry who have been bullying me, I wouldn't like that any better.
No matter how angry I ever get with people, I never call them those kinds of names or look for extremely personal ways to try to get them permanently degraded. I just cannot believe that this has gone on for as long as it has.
The names don't hurt my feelings; the names are too juvenile and disgusting to hurt my feelings. This isn't about hurt feelings and I'm not hypersensitive. It's harassment; I'm angry because it's harassment. It's a violation, and a gross abuse of power in every way.
No matter how many times you tell yourself that it's fine, it isn't.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010 @ 11:44 p.m.
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October 21, 2010 @ 1:47 a.m.
Yesterday afternoon I walked past 4 people who might have been teenagers or college students. We passed by each other on the street, and as I went by, one of the guys said "There's a gun in your face; what do you do?"
He sounded as if he were joking, and maybe he was. However, it's obvious whenever I leave the house that a lot of people in Burlington who are strangers to me know who I am, so no matter what kind of joke that guy was making, I've heard funnier ones.
You don't have the right to call me or anyone else vagina names, or to bully me for months on end the way you've been doing, or to encourage anyone to bully anyone. I saw an interview of you once in which you said you had a "strong religious faith." Do you think that what you're doing is consistent with what G-d would have you or anyone else do in this situation? I am genuinely asking you that question; I'm not being sarcastic or trying to be pedantic. I'm wondering if you have a truthful answer to that question, and I never need to hear what that answer is in exact words.
The celebrities and other harassers to whom you and I guess now all of American politics have been pandering haven't been reasonable about the limits to which they've pushed their relationship to you. As much as you abuse your power, they will follow that example; they have demonstrated that about themselves without fail.
Neither you nor anyone else can scare me into saying that what's been going on is fine or that I've been overreacting, or that I deserve it. I may get scared at times, but nothing is going to scare me enough to say that what you've been doing is all right; nothing.
C. L. Kochman October 21, 2010 @ 1:50 a.m.
The staff at the White House is very excited that I wrote angry things about what's been happening on the pages on my blog that say "Slurs" and "How I feel about the harassment." The first search result at the top of the page of a Google search on the name Barack Obama says "Barack Obama arrives in Portland!" and at the end of that blog post it says "Inside the meltdown!" and more about fish and so on.
It's hard for me to believe that this President would encourage even one person to call another person the n-word even one time, on one day. So why is this President calling me gender-based slurs or any other kind of serious, very personal slur that goes on day after day? Eight months now, just of vagina names, from the media and the harassing celebrities and TV shows, newspapers, radio, movies, magazines, and more, and the government has been involved in the last 4 of those months.
I think it would really help to stop other people calling me those things if he stopped doing it himself, and if he encouraged everyone in government to stop doing it. I'm not asking for new laws to be passed, unless it's a general anti-bullying law that people who know a lot about bullying work on with legislators for a while and figure out how to get it right. I don't think that anyone should be going through what I'm going through; if the President turned around and started bullying all the people in the entertainment industry who have been bullying me, I wouldn't like that any better.
No matter how angry I ever get with people, I never call them those kinds of names or look for extremely personal ways to try to get them permanently degraded. I just cannot believe that this has gone on for as long as it has.
The names don't hurt my feelings; the names are too juvenile and disgusting to hurt my feelings. This isn't about hurt feelings and I'm not hypersensitive. It's harassment; I'm angry because it's harassment. It's a violation, and a gross abuse of power in every way.
No matter how many times you tell yourself that it's fine, it isn't.
Copyright L. Kochman October 20, 2010 @ 11:44 p.m.
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October 21, 2010 @ 1:47 a.m.
Yesterday afternoon I walked past 4 people who might have been teenagers or college students. We passed by each other on the street, and as I went by, one of the guys said "There's a gun in your face; what do you do?"
He sounded as if he were joking, and maybe he was. However, it's obvious whenever I leave the house that a lot of people in Burlington who are strangers to me know who I am, so no matter what kind of joke that guy was making, I've heard funnier ones.
You don't have the right to call me or anyone else vagina names, or to bully me for months on end the way you've been doing, or to encourage anyone to bully anyone. I saw an interview of you once in which you said you had a "strong religious faith." Do you think that what you're doing is consistent with what G-d would have you or anyone else do in this situation? I am genuinely asking you that question; I'm not being sarcastic or trying to be pedantic. I'm wondering if you have a truthful answer to that question, and I never need to hear what that answer is in exact words.
The celebrities and other harassers to whom you and I guess now all of American politics have been pandering haven't been reasonable about the limits to which they've pushed their relationship to you. As much as you abuse your power, they will follow that example; they have demonstrated that about themselves without fail.
Neither you nor anyone else can scare me into saying that what's been going on is fine or that I've been overreacting, or that I deserve it. I may get scared at times, but nothing is going to scare me enough to say that what you've been doing is all right; nothing.
C. L. Kochman October 21, 2010 @ 1:50 a.m.