Talk:Seddie/@comment-24856071-20140410004922/@comment-14284535-20140411035716

@Passionate Seddier45 - last time someone tried to take a swing at me was last year before my brother's wedding. It had been a few years since I had something that bad.

After 9/11, it was really bad for months. Even though I am a Conservative Republican, I still feel very uneasy in many Republican strongholds outside the Rust Belt.

I totally get what your dad is saying. I was the first non-white in my suburb as a kid. I was also the first non-Christian non-Jew in the village as well. When I was in Kindergarten, the teachers used to hold me a couple of feet off the ground so that the Fifth Graders could beat me up. When I got called names, they told me, "shut up; they're just words." When I used words, I got kicked, slapped, punched, etc.

I've been shot at, punched with brass knuckles, kicked in the genitalia more times than I care to think about. I was called a "two bagger" because I was so ugly that one bag over my head wasn't enough. No one nowadays who sees my photos from back then thinks so, but I still believe it now.

I haven't even described some of the worst of what I lived through. That's why I am so unsympathetic to the entreaties of shippers. I am inured to unfairness when I am the target. I apologise for being so harsh. I actually envy you who can get outraged by the awfulness of how Dan Schneider handles romance because it doesn't even register on my radar.