We're Past All That: Thank you, and Good Night.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Thank you, and Good Night.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'm looking at some troubling analytics, and they paint a pretty undeniable picture. "We're Past All That" is not getting any social media bump. It's getting the same thirty or forty people clicking on every link (and it was the same 30 or 40 people from when we first started). We're not reaching any more people beyond my Facebook posts, and the point of this endeavor (sans satire) has always been to force people to see how these events are a daily reality, and not part of some distant past. I returned to this blog three weeks ago but despite my efforts, I can't seem to push beyond that same 30-40 people.

I was reaching more people simply by sharing posts on Facebook with the text "Today On 'We're Past All That'" I even know a few people who kind of got it because of that.

I invite everyone to come visit or friend my public Facebook Page where I will continue to dedicate a post each day to how much past all this stuff we are.

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To Our Readers

If it isn't clear, We're Past All That is entirely satire. As we tackle the new face of bigotry in the form of unexamined privilege and double standards, the worst obstacle is the narrative that it is merely a few crazy outliers who are still overtly racist/sexist/homophobic/etc... The defense of one example might be cogent, but as the stories pile on it becomes more and more absurd not to consider it part of a larger systematic problem that is still live and well, and I hope this caricature persona illustrates that.

Obviously to give examples regularly of outright racism, misogyny, homophobia, and such, there will be some alarming stories linked. This is not a safe space, and some stories may be so incendiary as to be triggering.