PROOF OF IDIOTS AMONG US

Nelz Nuze/WSB Radio/Savannah Morning News ^ | Novwmber 21, 2007 | Neal Boortz

[Turret Gunner A20]

This letter to the editor appeared in the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. The letter is self-explanatory. After you finish reading this there will be no need for any further commentary:

Modified community needs civil rights protections Because of my body modifications, including tattoos and piercings, I consider myself to be a member of the modified community. Due to my modifications, I not only have to deal with the daily routine of turned up noses and annoying questions from those without any body modifications, but I have to fight even harder to get a job than someone without any visible modifications.

So this brings up the question of whether laws should exist to protect modified people against job discrimination.

I believe we as a modified culture should be protected against discrimination just as African Americans, Jews and homosexuals are. During job interviews, we are looked down upon and assumed to be unintelligent. Employers view us as less of an asset to their company than those without body modifications.

If we are lucky enough to be offered the job due to our outstanding qualifications, we are required to remove our piercings and cover our tattoos. I ask, is this fair? Employers cannot ask a Jewish man to remove his Star of David pendant or tell a black woman to make sure her skin is covered because her pigment if offensive to some people.

Why do we as a modified culture have to suffer because of the changes we have committed to; as well as the way we choose to represent and express ourselves?

Being modified should not hinder our ability to get a job, as long as those modifications do not affect our ability to perform the necessary tasks required of that job. I will have the same education, the same skills, and the same passion regardless of modifications.

With any luck, in time, society as a whole will be able to view those of us with modifications the same way as they do anyone else.

So next time you are walking down the street and see someone with tattoos and piercings, think twice before making assumptions and realize that they are just the same as you, just with more decorations.

[Turret Gunner A20]

Is a comment really needed?

[xsrdx]

So next time you are walking down the street and see someone with tattoos and piercings, think twice before making assumptions and realize that they are just the same as you, just with more decorations.

Or not.

[dblshot]

This guy probably relates to Wolverine in the X- men movies. Mutants of the world unite!

[bcsco]

Is a comment really needed?

Only this: "So next time you are walking down the street and see someone with tattoos and piercings, think twice before making assumptions laugh out loud and realize that they are just the same as you, just with more decorations hilariously stupid."

[claudiustg]

What a bunch of tattoos and piercings say to a perspective employer is seriously impaired judgment.

[NCBraveheart]

Yeah........RIIIIIIIGHT

[wideawake]

I eagerly await a similar cri de coeur from the non-bathing community about the terrible prejudice to which they are subjected, and another from the meth-addict community about the social ostracism they endure.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Perhaps they are being sarcastic. It does show the ridiculousness of protection laws. They do not work, if one doesn’t desire to hire a black, homosexual and women, guess what they won’t.

[donna]

And, they are in love with themselves.

[calex59]

Modified community. Just wait, there will be a whole movement to “equalize” the modified community. Never mind that their modifications are self inflicted, that they choose to have metal shoved through various parts of their body and have indelible tracings implanted into their skin pores, they are not total idiots, just modified people. How stupid can people be? Pretty damn stupid, I’m thinking.

[OB1kNOb]

Class, today's word is: MODIFIED

Please use it frequently but in a totally out of context manner in a series of MODIFIED sentences.

[exile]

“PROOF OF IDIOTS AMONG US”

Until Liberals and Democraps are wiped out (or, at least, confined to zoos), idiots will wander the earth doing their best to p!ss me off.

[Drawsing]

How about the uninhibited flatulence community?

[kittymyrib]

What we “unmodified people” see are exhibitionists who have more ego than sense. As a group, these freaks will be chronically unemployed, unless they can charge each other for tattoos and piercings. What employer wants a weirdo representing his company?
Parents could stop this nonsense by refusing to fund these societal dropouts.

[FMBass]

To coin a phrase:

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap”

[bcsco]

And, they are in love with themselves.

Internal support mechanism. They have to be since no sane individual could.

[exile]

“So next time you are walking down the street and see someone with tattoos and piercings, think twice before making assumptions and realize that they are just the same as you, just with more decorations.”

They are not like me. They are sheep.

“Look at me with all my tattoos and piercings!!!! I’m an individual!!!! Just like all my friends!!!!”

[umgud]

Just wait till a man looking like a Hells Angel comes to date your 15 y/o daughter. You’ll get on the profiling bandwagon real quick.

[Steve_Seattle]

"During job interviews, we are looked down upon and assumed to be unintelligent."

In my opinion, anyone who has a metallic booger in their nose, or a tongue or lip piercing, is indeed stupid, or, at the very least, has no aesthetic sense whatsoever. As Hank Hill said, "I don't mind body piercing; it lets you know who the weirdos are without even asking."

[LongTimeMILurker]

There are new scientific studies showing that there is a gene which causes people to get tattoos and non traditional piercings. Getting tattoos and piercings is really not a choice. Scientists say it’s also been linked to the gene for stupidity.