^i used capital letters today to make something irreversible clear. People are not good to each other. And i suppose they never will be, nor do i ask them to. But today made me angry; today made me realize the depth of the intolerance, the violent sub-culture, and the all around ignorance of american suburbia. Today, while at the park with my friends, i (or more specifically ben) was accosted by a large group of ultramasculine individuals who claimed that my friends and myself were trying to "start shit" with a group of younger kids playing football nearby, who had previously called us faggots. This group of individuals, lead by a self-righteous jackass, numbered about 40, compared to our group of less than ten. They approached us, circled around ben, and began to verbally harass him, then threatened he and the rest of us with violence. They then took ben and another of our group named tanner and forced them to play a twisted version of "smear the queer", in which they were repeatedly taken down. Tanner was hit in the face. After observing that one of this group carried a knife, ben and tanner walked across the street to escape, at which point the leader, and main purveyor of the harassment, tried (and failed) to tackle ben from behind.
and so i must say, fuck jocks. fuck kids who think they need to prove themselves with violence and sports and exercise. this is the last time i deal with it; promise.
and most of all, fuck kids who are too nervous to do anything about it. fuck all the nice kids in that crowd, who were too pussy to stand up for the weak kids who had nothing to do with anything at all.
And you're telling me Franco, that if you had the ability to physically stop these people, to prevent them from harming your friends and perhaps from harming many other kids in the future...that you wouldn't? Simply because you always believe physical violence is wrong?
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