Too many opinions

Too many opinions. I've got them. So many ideas. Most of them are dumb. I just unpublished two posts that were ten years old, so as to repurpose this blog. My new intention is to use it as a a public notepad. Todays opinion: White impunity sucks. This video is a relatively minor example (although the victim here might disagree, and I wouldnt argue with him since he was the victim). It's minor because it didn't end up with the police arriving and shooting or arresting Alex. I expect a lot of white people would disagree. They will say this is a video of cranky old women, possibly with dementia. That is because they've never been on the receiving end of aggression from someone who thinks they can just walk into someone else's garage, swearing angrily and spewing racial epithets, getting into their physical space, etc. Basically acting like they own everything and can do whatever the fuck they want if they do it to a non-white. This is the essence of white impunity. And sometimes it is backed with state violence—although that happens much more frequently to black people than it does to asians. Speaking from my experience, this feels like a slap in the face or a punch in the gut for Asians. It doesn't (or didn't use to) happen all that move because East Asians have been the model minority in recent history. Other minorities, ESPECIALLY black people suffer under a constant dread, not the occasional racist bullshit thrown at Asians. (Let me be clear: Asians do get violently attacked and even murdered by racists whites on occasion.) So I think a lot of white people will deny this incident has anything to do with white impunity. I can see how someone who has never experienced racism might see this as just an overreaction by elderly woman suffering from dementia. Someone firmly and unconsciously embedded in their privilege might even blame Alex Wong for "being confrontational". But that someone would be wrong because theyre ignoring the context. Today's Silly Idea: Jack the Ripper and the Beanstalk I came up with this idea after following one of those associative chains. I was looking up the Spanish title for Jack and the Beanstalk, which is Jack y las Habichuelas Mágicas. (What the hell are habichuelas? I expected "frijoles mágicos". New vocabulary word for frijoles.) When I typed Jack (in the Spanish Wikipedia search box), one of the suggestions that popped up was Jack el Destripador, i.e., Jack the Ripper. That's all.