Ectothermal

My liberal coworker is broadcasting conservative hate email. WTF?

Today's quote is lengthy, but oh so good.

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The Fury of Abandonment
~Anne Sexton

Someone lives in a cave
eating his toes,
I know that much.
Someone little lives under a bush
pressing an empty Coca-Cola can against
his starving bloated stomach,
I know that much.
A monkey had his hands cut off
for a medical experiment
and his claws wept.
I know that much.

I know that it is all
a matter of hands.
Out of the mournful sweetness of touching
comes love
like breakfast.
Out of the many houses come the hands
before the abandonment of the city,
out of the bars and shops
a thin file of ants.

I've been abandoned out here
under the dry stars
with no shoes, no belt
and I've called Rescue Inc. --
that old-fashioned hot line --
no voice.
Left to my own lips, touch them,
my own dumb eyes, touch them,
the progression of my parts, touch them,
my own nostrils, shoulders, breasts,
navel, stomach, mound, kneebone, ankle,
touch them.

It makes me laugh
to see a woman in this condition.
It makes me laugh for America and New York City
when your hands are cut off
and no one answers the phone.

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A coworker of mine has begun to send me strange right-wing email. The kind of crap that just gets forwarded around the globe over and over. These email messages include references to whining liberals and capital "G" god, and one even suggests that any immigrants who are not willing to speak English should be deported.

These email messages are disturbing for quite a few reasons.

1. I've had quite a few leftie conversations with her and she's agreed wholeheartedly with me.
2. She's black, and up until now, I've always thought, progressive.
3. I think she truly assumes I agree with the sentiments expressed in these messages.
4. I think she may actually think these messages are progressive, or she's forwarding these politically charged things without reading them?
5. Forwarding messages like that is asinine no matter what.
6. Since when is it appropriate to send insulting political shit around to your coworkers?

So the last message I got from her I just wrote back and said that I don't really think that people who choose not to speak English should be deported. She hasn't spoken to me since.

posted by Ecto Thermal @ 8:04 AM