Rant 2.5

I originally posted this on my DailyBooth, but I figured might as well repost it here. It's definitely long enough.


I'm resisting the urge to rant about my roommate right now. And to think, she went so long without pissing me off; I was even considering possibly not moving at the end of the year. But she just renewed my bubbling annoyance that is growing into dislike for her.


However, I'm not going to stop myself ranting about another subject. There's a club on campus called the Berkeley College Republicans. Next Friday, they're protesting Affirmative Action right across from an Affirmative Action phone bank. They'll be selling baked goods, with pricing based on your ethnicity. Except the satirical piece they wrote to promote this event was extremely, and utterly racist and narrow-minded. To be honest, when I read it, I didn't think too much of it. It was just a bunch of insufficient, angry kids, who are unsatisfied with themselves and too lazy to do better, and thus wanted to take their anger out on everybody around them (i.e. everybody better than them). But their post incited a lot of anger, and while a good amount of people were stating how wrong their actions were in a very level-headed manner, there were those who just outright either cussed them out, or called them names. And that doesn't help, does it? I don't understand why people do that. I can understand if you're doing that, and you're a little kid. I know I definitely did that when I was younger. But c'mon, you guys are supposed to be a bunch of young adults, going to one of the best universities in the world. Surely, you could form more coherent thoughts?


And going along that line, same with all the Facebook complaints. The moment when Facebook updated again, I cannot count the number of friends who posted statuses complaining how horrible the new Facebook was. It was like the end of the world had occurred or something. Everybody knows that you're only hating on Facebook's changes to be "cool," and you'll be used to the changes within an hour or two of them taking place. People have to understand that things like Facebook are companies, products, and technologies. You cannot expect them to remain stagnant. They will develop, grow, and advance. Yes, sometimes, they don't work out, but most of the time, they do. So please, just shut up.