Nothing is more pervasive in our modern world as firing off our thoughts as soon as the exit the ‘formative nucleus’ phase. It wasn’t that long ago that people still wrote letters out by hand or talked on phones that had cords. Coincidentally, social media platforms weren’t around then, the Internet was in its fetal stages and for those who could get online, the best you could do was ASCII-based chat provided you knew how command prompts operated. I would hazard a guess that quite a number of you would think that world existed half a century ago, but it was alive and well just two decades ago.

A topic I don’t explicitly harp on is the ease of being able to launch thoughts into the world as soon as they are birthed within a person’s mind. I know I’ve made mentioned before of thinking before acting, specifically in the case of poor writing, grammar and prose, but this is actually a topic that I’ve wanted to cover since reviving this space, and thanks to the recent events of this past year, I’m able to do so without having to spend a truck-load of time looking for evidence. That sounds lazy of me, and it slightly is, but in all honesty, there aren’t that many explicit examples of a person shooting off what is essentially a half-baked potato of a thought or idea in the form of media I typically cover.

That said, the leader of BlackLivesMatter Toronto, one of the larger sects of the ‘movement’, has left a wonderful gift in my lap. Thank you, Ms. Yusra Khogali, for proving a point that comedian Dave Chappelle made on his very first long-form sketch of his show back in 2003: anyone and everyone can be racist.

Ha!

I didn’t include it here, but if you follow the link above, you’ll see this was an op-ed piece. I found it comical that the Toronto Star filed this ‘truth’ under the ‘Opinion’ section, meaning by definition that its validity is up for debate. It’s also comical if you have any background on what Yusra said that prompted her to write this damage-control piece since her comment was a declaration bordering on a threat and not an exposé as she is implying here.

Summon ‘Wave of Sympathy’ casted!

Anyone who immediately starts off their argument with a plea to emotions is, at least in my book, not going to receive my full attention. If you have a point to make and you want to appeal to emotions at some point, fine; I much rather prefer stats, logic, facts and reason, but emotional arguments are valid when structured and argued properly. When you appeal to emotion directly, however, you’re essentially throwing in the towel. Doing this indicates that you may not even attempt to use facts or irrefutable evidence to make your point, and that’s like trying to make a skyscraper with a foundation made of straw.

I’ve also never heard any social justice crusader or modern feminist (radical, academic or otherwise) explain all this ‘systemic *insert thing here*’ or even how parts could be laid out and then put together to create the aforementioned system. The average layperson isn’t going to argue, much less even care, about this, but my job as an engineer is to observe a problem and provide a solution through the creation of a system or multiple systems. As an example, a high rise is created through mathematics and a system of software which operates iteratively to ensure the stability of the structure. This said high rise also contains a foundation, a system which keeps the building planted to the ground, an electrical system to provide power to all the tenants of the building, a mechanical system to provide heat, water and air throughout the building, and a structural system to keep the building upright and each floor from falling in on one another. In short, I know all about systems and system creation, and I have yet to receive an answer or divine one on my own as to how a system of oppression exists or was even created in the first place. Plus, this girl is busy assembling, marching and protesting with her organization constantly along with communicating via Twitter and Facebook. If she was truly being oppressed or discriminated against, then wouldn’t the government have stepped in to forcibly shut her down (assuming BLMTO was operating in a lawful manner) or outright assassinated her for speaking out against it?

I frankly don’t understand the last sentence. I can only presume that Yusra is trying to show solidarity to all the black people who were killed during shootouts or incidents with police in the United States. Solidarity is fine, but the sentence implies that all those killed were believers of Islam and, to my knowledge, none of those involved in all the events have been confirmed as such. Again, I guess she’s showing solidarity since those involved were black and she’s black, but then there isn’t a reason to even bring up the fact she is a follower of Islam except to shoe-horn in the ‘Islamophobia’ bit when there isn’t any context at all for it. It’s unimportant, so oh well, whatever.

Oh, wow.

Hon, you have to prove the existence of ‘the forces that torment’ because that’s how the burden of proof works. You claim that there are these ‘forces’ that exist and that directly affect you. People who have never encountered these ‘forces’ or who have encountered people who have exaggerated claims about these ‘forces’ will naturally be skeptical and thus will ask you (as they have done) to prove your claim. I would be sorry that you don’t understand this pre-high school level concept, but considering you’ve already put a quarter-century of time on this planet, there isn’t an excuse for willfully being ignorant like this.

I do like how Ms. Khogali is continuing to appeal to emotion because, again, that’s all she has here. You’d think that she’d put more effort in considering she has nothing else to leverage, but it’s clearly she just doesn’t give a shit since she, as stated above, is being willfully ignorant and extremely defensive about following the burden of proof properly. Additionally, I’m confused how any of this defends her tweet. We live during a time where ISIS and other home-brew terrorists consistently shoot out death threats via online media and laws against threats have been well-established for years; there is no reason and, in my opinion, no way that this girl does not know nor understand the repercussions of what she blasted out. Also, when she says shit like ‘sought restraint’ after having said, ‘I put my rage and trauma into words, not action, not threat’ (which is fucking god-awful grammar), it’s fairly logical to conclude that she may have gone out and put some random white folks in an early and undeserved grave simply because she has the most uncomfortable rock firmly lodged in her cervix.

Remember, only racism against blacks must be ended. All other types are perfectly fine.

First, here is a piece on Andrew Loku. While I was ready to write this case off as yet another case where BLM had built up a member of the black community to golden angel heights, which then shattered when information compiled later on proved otherwise like many of these police & black citizen incidents in the States. However, I will absolutely recognize that this case is a tragedy.

However, that doesn’t mean what Yusra is saying here isn’t stinking to high heavens. If we are to believe that the information in the above article is correct, it is fairly reasonable to assume Mr. Loku entered a PTSD episode where the noise was the trigger and that he may have very well been in the episode at the time he was shot. As someone who has never suffered from PTSD, I obviously cannot speak to what an episode is like or involves, but I can say with confidence that regardless of mental state, if law enforcement directs you to disarm yourself and you do not, you are likely getting shot. Heck, lack of mental clarity would possibly even raise the danger level of the situation since Mr. Loku might not have been able to be talked off the proverbial ledge, and the average police officer is not trained in that style of negotiation. This is indeed a saddening event, but it is in no way racist. Frankly, the fact that BLMTO are ignoring the crux of the problem, namely the neighboring family making all the noise, in favor of pushing a race-based agenda as sad as the even itself. Had one person explained or aided Loku in finding a better living situation or reaching out to authorities, this may never have happened and the man might be alive today. Of course, however, BLM has a garbage agenda to push, the facts of the case be damned.

Second, the demands are fucking retarded, and even saying that is an affront to the mentally slow. Since Yusra doesn’t explain what the hell she means by ‘carding’, I can only assume she means the practice establishments with age-restrictions use to limit their clientele. This has nothing to do with the event at all and, if the term is as I’ve described, just a shitty way for her to get rid of a law that keeps minors from being permanently impaired by a substance that is more dangerous than class one narcotics. Also, if we consider the fact that Khogali explicitly mentions the removal ‘anti-black structures’, it’s only logical to infer from the statement that this change would only apply to black people. In short, these demands are stupidly racist. Additionally, how is ‘restoring Afro-fest’ a priority here or in any way tangentially related to the death of Loku? Again, this is fucking self-indulgent shit that Yusra pushed under the guise of solidarity and fighting against ‘systemic anti-black racism’, wherever the fuck that is. Lastly, her grammar is still atrocious. Why nobody at the Toronto Star sent this through editing is beyond me; I can only assume that the paper is infected with ‘journalists’ who are only that in name and, in reality, just post on their Tumblrs while at work in between mangling out ‘news articles’.

Ah, the old ‘use big words’ tactic. That never, ever fails, ever.

I will never understand why people like Khogali seem so surprised that people would stand against them. For every person out there who likes something, there is a person out there who doesn’t give a shit and another who hates that something. It’s almost like these people have never been online before or even in the real world, which are both fair statements considering social justice crusading was initially an extremely small part of Tumblr until recently, and most people involved with social justice and BLM go to college for bullshit soft science degrees where they’re coddled like toddlers at a day-care.

As for Jerry Agar’s whatever, I can’t decipher what the fuck he said since you didn’t explain anything and, instead, just flooded the paragraph with a bunch of ten-dollar buzzwords that you clearly don’t know the meanings of. My assumption is that he called out your tweet as being threatening and racist, which it was, and you are butt-hurt that it was called out along with being twat-twisted that it was called out by an old white male who has been in the journalism and information dissemination business far longer than you’ve been alive. Then again, I would also be pretty devastated if some old codger called me out on my bullshit that I’ve been peddling to try and get a shitty music festival back in town as doing so would completely erode my credibility. I, however, am not so stupid and glass-ego’d to A: even set myself up to be in a mess like this and B: felled so easily. Yusra, doll, just take the L already.

More ‘Big Words I Don’t Understand but Will Continue to Use’ for $400, Alex.

Thank heavens you aren’t a public official or police officer because if either of those were true, you’d probably be illegally arresting or outright murdering white people on the streets for the ‘crime’ of being white and/or upsetting your feelings. Boo hoo! I do, however, find it funny that she claims she’s ‘never contributed to the mass targeting of a community’ when her shitty tweet put BLMTO and BLM as a whole under rightful scrutiny in addition to said tweet being specifically written to target white people, men and white men.

Also, hon, where the fuck is this ‘turn of phrase’ anywhere in your statement? How is that tweet rhetorical at all? I mean, I guess you could claim ‘repetition’ with how many times you said ‘plz’, despite that not being a real word, but that’s hardly rhetoric. Shit like this creases my taint because morons believe that if you use complicated and important-sounding words, you are not a moron. No, not only are you still a moron, you’ve given everyone else who does understand how to use these words properly all the ammo they need to absolutely bury you without even ripping apart your argument, provided you made one. You, Yusra Khogali, are a fucking shame to the University of Toronto, a place that was near the top of my list to when I was applying to graduate school, to the point that I will spend my entire life actively telling anyone who wants my opinion on where to go to college to never go there. What a great service you’ve provided, you twit.

Thanks for getting me to giggle like a maniac.

‘Our protest’s many and profound accomplishments’ is one of the funniest fragments of a sentence I’ve read in a long while. I always through stuff like a Nobel Prize or becoming the President of the United States were profound accomplishments, but I guess bitching loud enough, sitting in tents like greasy hippie bums and generally being unbelievable douche bags in order to get a festival to come to your city again is enough to be considered ‘profound’. Then again, I’m not a shitty hippie, so what I consider an accomplishment is much more involved than ‘make sure I can dance, do drugs, fuck and chill to the tasty grooves, man’.

Equally comical is the ‘those who have died at the guns of police in this country’ line. As far as I can recall, which is probably not as accurate as it should be, the nation of Canada had barely a handful of these incidents which could’ve been construed as police versus black citizens. Far more have happened in the United States, which A: is not your country, so stop trying to insert yourself in problems that aren’t yours and B: a fair number of the incidents, as I have already said, have been forgotten due to the victims not being perfect, untouchable golden angels like BLM propped them up as.

In regards to the journalism and media portion, there is absolutely no way a soft science student wouldn’t know that this is how modern media works; it is filled with people who are shitty journalists and are all looking for the next ‘big scoop’ to get their fifteen microseconds of fame and attention their parents did not afford them. Black people, however, are not vilified at all, in the media; you could argue that blacks are, in fact, consistently anglicized considering how often the media will report with subtle bias in favor of the black citizens involved with the story, but of course you would ignore that since it undermines your entire statement. I’m also not really sure what this ‘condition’ is that you’re talking about; frankly, I wish I had your gig. You get to abdicate all your adult responsibilities, be loud, obnoxious, toxically stupid and outspokenly racist and not only are you untouchable because you are black, you get speaking gigs thrown at you constantly. That’s not also including money earned via fund-raising and federally granted money, as I believe BLM is considered a non-profit organization on the whole. Here I am, getting reamed in the booty-hole with theorems and spending hours ensuring thousands of data entries are appearing properly so my Excel call functions will work right, and you’re rolling in just about everything. Miss Yusra, kindly eat a bag of white dicks.

Yeah, when I think of civil rights and equality among the races, I think of maple syrup-covered Toronto.

Khogali’s catch-all in ‘have been or know somebody’ would have worked if fucking Toronto was known as a place where Civil Rights had been a hot button issue. Unfortunately, Toronto has been a quiet, busy and peaceful city since well before the issues of Civil Rights in the United States came to a head, and Toronto is not in the southern portion of the United States, where slavery was once legal, endorsed, embraced with open arms and many white slave owners and citizens prior to 1964 believe many blacks were of lower status across the board. More succinctly, Yusra and her friends have never known a time in Toronto that hasn’t been perfectly excellent to be a black person because, historically speaking, that time never happened. Thus, we can only assume that the people she knows actually come from the US and have family that existed during the time of the Civil Rights Movement. That still doesn’t mean she ‘knows somebody’ or that Toronto police have been brutalizing blacks in the city because, again, that shit doesn’t happen in the Great Nice North.

Ultimately, Yusra is yet another nobody who is suffering from delusions of grandeur and her friends are too scared, too loyal, too lonely or too stupid to be honest with her. ‘To be black in this city is to fight to survive’, are you kidding me? Yeah, you really have to ‘fight to survive’ in the fifth largest city in North America which is filled with tons of top echelon companies, universities, school systems and a host of other benefits like an abundance of syrup, excellent professional sports teams and fucking free health care. God, the fucking struggle; I can only imagine.

My condolences to John Tory.

I would ignore your stupid asses, too, if you decided to pull an Occupy Wall Street-lite movement outside my establishments doorsteps. Hell, if it were me, I would sit outside with a full Igloo sports cooler of whatever beverage fit the weather appropriately and just drink and enjoy my day with the sole purpose of spiting you and pissing you off. Slacktivists always think that ‘fighting’ is the same thing as inconveniencing people, and it’s not. If Yusra Khogali really gave a shit about the plight of black people in Toronto and the whole of North America, she would be working to keep black families together, finding a long term cure for sickle cell and pushing for better schooling systems in impoverished areas and cities, which is where the black population is at its largest and most destroyed.

But of course, Yusra and her shitty socio-political outfit created to be loud and racist on the false idea that blacks can’t be racist would never do that, and that’s because they don’t care about real problems. These people care about whatever asinine bullshit they want; in this case, fucking Afro-fest, and they will lie and shift goal-posts and blow smoke up their own asses at nauseating speeds to do so. ‘All the violence we endure when we resist’ my ass; if I were a black person in North America, I would be beyond dismayed and ashamed that people will associate your voice with me.

In summary, what I find especially depressing about this is not just the fact a man who didn’t need to die did, but that Yusra Khogali is where she is today because she is stupidly attractive and was never told ‘no’ in her life. Being physically desirable historically makes people, both men and women, more willing to put up with your bullshit; couple that with existing in an academic sphere where all ‘feels’ are considered and having your ego coddled and fed for over twenty years, it makes complete sense that this girl would become a total maniac. Equally sad is that, thanks to being a deluded maniac, this girl believes that saying ‘Who cares that I was a racist pile of garbage? I don’t have to prove anything; you all are racist fucks for asking me to do so!’ is a legitimate ‘get out of jail free’ card. What a waste of a nationally funded and educated mind.