justine
stop the penistry
despite the dissing of myspace that goes on, i've found it a good way to meet people, and i've actually met a lot of very interesting and very lovely people through my profile. but... every now and again a crazy person makes nice then unleashes his TRUE nature... i got a message from a guy calling himself "Werwolf [sic] Guerilla", complimenting my choice of art on my page. i went to look at his page, but it was set to private. his explanation was that his profile had been deleted 20 times in the last six months by "those who oppose freedom of speech". i was intrigued... he added me as a friend, i went to his page, and lo and behold, he's a freaking white supremacist! i read the whole page, which was SOLELY devoted to promoting his beliefs in racial purity. now, he wrote articulately, he advocated love of one's own race as opposed to hatred of another. i don't support ideas of racial purity, and i refuse to let someone promote those ideas through my page, so i deleted him immediately, sent him a message very politely telling him i wasn't interested in discussing the subject, and wished him all the best. i could have reported him, had his page deleted, but i think people are entitled to their opinions (even if they're completely wrong;) ). and he didn't sound violent or even that crazy. but he didn't take my rejection of him too well... here's the last few exchanges between us before i had him blocked from contacting me:
FROM ME [after he sent me a bunch of Ryden, Trevor Brown and John John Jesse paintings featuring swastikas and claiming that "your cultural idols obviously differ in opinion from you"]:
hey Jeremy,
in my view, they are artists, not idols. i like the juxtapositions of disturbing and beautiful that occur in the work of artists like Mark Ryden et al.
like i said, you're entitled to express your beliefs, i have no problem with that at all. it's just that racial purity is not a subject i'm interested in discussing in any depth.
i like *mongrels* :)
xJustine
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: werwolf_guerrillaâ„¢
Date: 23 Mar 2007, 03:48
haha...
well if these artists are merely juxtapositions to you and not revered as modern icons of art, which we both know they are, then you are not worthy of appreciating there FINE art.
quite obviously you are impressed in a juvenile mtv sense and "i am going to look cool to my mates if i dig this shit" manner.
your appreciation and understanding of art is mongrel, and quite clearly you have as little respect for art as you do your culture.
enjoy your mongrels.
that is all you deserve to expect from life.
and you surely have no right to enjoy our cultural art.
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Rubyred
Date: 23 Mar 2007, 04:01
well, Jeremy, i have to say i'm disappointed with that last message. although i don't agree with your views, i was prepared to respect that they are views which you have arrived at thoughtfully and with a high degree of intelligence. you appeared to be someone who was not hateful or disrespectful, but you have made a series of judgments about me based on the meagre information you have gleaned about my person from my sparse myspace profile and a couple of brief messages. unfortunately, for me this precludes any further discussion taking place between us.
good luck with your novel, and i wish you the best.
xJustine
FROM HIM:
are you serious?
as much as i enjoy the eloquence of your message you are merely talking loud but saying nothing.
and i know you feel all self-righteous but it is you who made the judgement to decline my add on a preconceived perception.
not me.
i quote..."although i don't agree with your views, i was prepared to respect that they are views which you have arrived at thoughtfully and with a high degree of i quote intelligence."
however you had already deleted me.
gosh.
how full of shit are you.
i am not hateful.
i am not disrespectful.
if you had actually taken the time to rea my profile you would know exactly what i have done for an occupation.
you seem to have an over-inflated sense of self-importance.
and yes.
from your myspace profile and brief messages i gleamed all there is to know about you.
you are a shallow mongrel.
with a dictionary.
AND THIS MORON WONDERS WHY HIS PROFILE KEEPS GETTING DELETED! IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEFS, IT'S BECAUSE HE'S CRAZY! and who is dense enough to see a swastika in a painting and assume it means the artist advocates racial purity?? even worse, this guy is from New Zealand. it freaks me out that he only lives a few hundred kilometres from me, and i stupidly gave him my first name.
FROM ME [after he sent me a bunch of Ryden, Trevor Brown and John John Jesse paintings featuring swastikas and claiming that "your cultural idols obviously differ in opinion from you"]:
hey Jeremy,
in my view, they are artists, not idols. i like the juxtapositions of disturbing and beautiful that occur in the work of artists like Mark Ryden et al.
like i said, you're entitled to express your beliefs, i have no problem with that at all. it's just that racial purity is not a subject i'm interested in discussing in any depth.
i like *mongrels* :)
xJustine
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: werwolf_guerrillaâ„¢
Date: 23 Mar 2007, 03:48
haha...
well if these artists are merely juxtapositions to you and not revered as modern icons of art, which we both know they are, then you are not worthy of appreciating there FINE art.
quite obviously you are impressed in a juvenile mtv sense and "i am going to look cool to my mates if i dig this shit" manner.
your appreciation and understanding of art is mongrel, and quite clearly you have as little respect for art as you do your culture.
enjoy your mongrels.
that is all you deserve to expect from life.
and you surely have no right to enjoy our cultural art.
----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Rubyred
Date: 23 Mar 2007, 04:01
well, Jeremy, i have to say i'm disappointed with that last message. although i don't agree with your views, i was prepared to respect that they are views which you have arrived at thoughtfully and with a high degree of intelligence. you appeared to be someone who was not hateful or disrespectful, but you have made a series of judgments about me based on the meagre information you have gleaned about my person from my sparse myspace profile and a couple of brief messages. unfortunately, for me this precludes any further discussion taking place between us.
good luck with your novel, and i wish you the best.
xJustine
FROM HIM:
are you serious?
as much as i enjoy the eloquence of your message you are merely talking loud but saying nothing.
and i know you feel all self-righteous but it is you who made the judgement to decline my add on a preconceived perception.
not me.
i quote..."although i don't agree with your views, i was prepared to respect that they are views which you have arrived at thoughtfully and with a high degree of i quote intelligence."
however you had already deleted me.
gosh.
how full of shit are you.
i am not hateful.
i am not disrespectful.
if you had actually taken the time to rea my profile you would know exactly what i have done for an occupation.
you seem to have an over-inflated sense of self-importance.
and yes.
from your myspace profile and brief messages i gleamed all there is to know about you.
you are a shallow mongrel.
with a dictionary.
AND THIS MORON WONDERS WHY HIS PROFILE KEEPS GETTING DELETED! IT'S NOT BECAUSE OF HIS BELIEFS, IT'S BECAUSE HE'S CRAZY! and who is dense enough to see a swastika in a painting and assume it means the artist advocates racial purity?? even worse, this guy is from New Zealand. it freaks me out that he only lives a few hundred kilometres from me, and i stupidly gave him my first name.
