If you don't know what "Displace Me" is, I will explain it to you. In order to stop African children from being kidnapped and forced to become soldiers, hundreds of college and high school students are going camping one night to learn about suffering. If that seems incredibly dumb to you that's because it is. (This is the part where you start to hate me) Let me say for the record that I am not in favor of the kidnapping and forced soldierhood of African children. I truly do think that this is a worthy cause to fight for. Having said that let me reiterate how amazingly dumb this "Displace Me" idea is. Let me get this straight, in order to stop kidnapping and labor of children in AFRICA, you are suggesting that I go CAMPING with hundreds of my friends to understand what it is like to be homeless? Is that what's going on? Seriously? You couldn't be more ineffective if you tried. If you walked up to a starving Ethiopian and looked him square in the eye and said "I know how you feel, once in college I skipped dinner twice" you would sound like the most arrogant and idiodic asshole that ever walked the face of this planet. Skipping that meal solved nothing expect making you hungrier for the next time you ate at which point you probably overate and stretched the lining of your stomach causing stretch marks that will eventually kill you, congratulations fucktard .
"Displace Me" is a vain attempt for underappraciative middle-class kids to have a chance to feel good about themselves by hiding behind the facade of service. "Well if you're so high and mighty Paladin, what are you doing to help the Invisible Children from that movie I watched once that made me cry like a Sally Struthers commercial?" What am I doing? Nothing. I am doing absolutely nothing, just like you, except I'm not hiding behind a mask good intentions and a camping trip. It's like you are walking up to someone at their father's funeral and patting them on the shouler and saying "Last month, my dad went on vacation for four days and I didn't know what to do with myself; so I know just how you feel." What a douchey thing to say and no one in their right mind would do something like that. If you really want to help, go over to Africa yourself, find a child that has been kidnapped and handed a gun and carry them back to America with you, then do that again and do it again and again and againandagainandagainandagainandagianandagain until there are no more children to save, THEN come talk to me about all the good you did. What is Schindler had acted like you? What if he had said "Fuck my list, I'm gonna go shovel three pounds of dirt to understand what those Jews are feeling. Then Hitler will see what he is doing is wrong." I'm betting he wouldn't have a movie made about him, what do you think? And please don't write comment after comment telling me I'm "way off base". I am fully aware that I have simplified this, I know how it all works and don't need you to tell me again your justification for hanging out with your friends and "changing the world". If you ask me its all a huge load of shit, which coincidentally is exactly what I just did, that and my new laniard bunny named Mr Jerricakes.
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