{"id":31198,"date":"2011-10-27T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31198"},"modified":"2020-06-28T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:22:36","slug":"s-t-a-r-s-stands-for-one-thing-and-one-thing-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31198","title":{"rendered":"S.T.A.R.S. stands for one thing and one thing only"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No matter how much I don\u2019t act the part, sound the part, speak like the part, or live like the part, I am an Asian guy.\u00a0 No amount of makeup, styles of clothing, or even to some extent surgery could ever change the fact that appearance-wise, I am an Asian guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Probably contradictory to something I\u2019ve said in the past, but Halloween costumes don\u2019t offend me.\u00a0 If a non-Asian person dresses up as something making a mockery of Asian people, fine, I might very well be inclined to counter with something that mocks their culture back in the future.\u00a0 But I\u2019m not offended by it.<\/span><\/p>\n

A bunch of students at Ohio University\u00a0has apparently take it upon themselves to attempt to take the fun out of a chunk of Halloween with these buzzkill PSA posters about how select tasteless Halloween costumes are racist and how it IS NOT OKAY<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s fine, I can see that they\u2019re frustrated, and are pretending to have no funny bone to spread an agenda, and are probably hypocritically standing against culturally-mocking Halloween costumes.\u00a0 If that\u2019s their prerogative, I can accept that.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I cannot accept the fact that they\u2019ve given their little student group a name, but not just a name, but an acronym, that stands very dear to my very heart: S.T.A.R.S.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The original acronym of S.T.A.R.S. is\u00a0Special Tactics And Rescue Squad<\/em>, and it is the group that contained\u00a0Resident Evil <\/em>mainstays Chris, Jill, Barry, Rebecca and Wesker (Brad, Forrest, Enrico, Richard, Joseph and Kenneth too).\u00a0 This whiny group of transparent, overly-sensitive college students trying to make themselves look good are calling themselves \u201cStudents Teaching About Racism in Society (note the unacknowledged \u2018in\u2019),\u201d but are helping themselves to the S.T.A.R.S. acronym, which I find to be unacceptable.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not even a good acronym with the missing \u201ci\u201d in it.\u00a0 Call themselves \u201cS.T.A.R.i.S\u201d or something, but not fucking S.T.A.R.S.\u00a0 So with such a treachery, drew my ire, and forced my hand.\u00a0 There are some truly awesome mockeries out there (also in the provided link), but they left out addressing the biggest encroachment of them all.\u00a0 But it wouldn\u2019t have been appropriate if it were done by anyone other than me, so here we stand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using Barry Burton is like the perfect juxtaposition, since he\u2019s pretty much the toughest, manliest character in the Resident Evil universe, but them to have him emo-bitching about the not really that offensive matters of being masqueraded by a bunch of sissy college students who can\u2019t find a good laugh in tasteless humor, seemed very appropriate to me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter how much I don\u2019t act the part, sound the part, speak like the part, or live like the part, I am an Asian guy.\u00a0 No amount of makeup, styles of clothing, or even to some extent surgery could ever change the fact that appearance-wise, I am an Asian guy. Probably contradictory to something … Continue reading S.T.A.R.S. stands for one thing and one thing only<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,15,89,39,49],"class_list":["post-31198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-racism","tag-resident-evil","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31269,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions\/31269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}