NorthernComfort wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2017 5:49 pm
You can go back and read our conversation.
Man, I did. You mischaracterized every position I've had and dismissed it as quickly as possible in order to make me look bad. That's not the same thing as considering things from my point of view, and if you're unclear on why this would be insulting to me I don't know what to tell you. I'm not making these points to piss you off, I promise you that. I really feel this way. I'm really still unconvinced. I still believe my central points here. I want them discussed. I don't feel that they've been. Just mocked.
And opinion being opinion, if you just want to dismiss me and move on that's fine, but there's a lot of time sunk into this at this point and I've yet to feel like anyone's taking much time to consider anything I've said.
NorthernComfort wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2017 5:49 pm
Who triggered who, who is racist, and who is shutting somebody up permanently etc?
Your personal experience from this seems to be centered around people calling you racist in a political discussion, which you deemed unfair, and you thought that once they slapped that label on you it made it easy for them to dismiss what you said.
While I can't say I've been there, I'm feeling similar in this very thread. Kind of hard to make a point to someone when that person clearly thinks you're some braying jackass.
What really gets me is that I repeatedly addressed a central point of yours, hoped we could actually both get to expand upon it, and it just got ignored every time. I'd love to go into what you think are the causes of our political divide, because I've been focused on that very divide for pretty much my entire adult life. It is the main thing that concerns me politically. It could have been a kickass discussion. And in fact, I would love to ask you to consider how I've spent so much time thinking about this and arrived at different conclusions from your own. Somewhere between the two, the truth lies, and that would be phenomenal to find. Ah well.
But you don't see me as worthy of discussing things like an equal and that's been made obvious with your long condescending tone. Which sucks because we really could have had a good discussion.
In response to being dismissed and mocked, I gave you sarcasm. What else was I supposed to do, apologize for disagreeing?
It seems to me you feel bullied by the Politically Correct. While I feel for you, I don't think that really is enough to confirm for me that this is a menace that will impact my life. If you disagree, I'd love to hear something I have lost that I just didn't notice was lost. It seems like you want to tell me that I'm lying about my personal experience. As every writing class I've ever taken says, show don't tell.
Oh wait, professors told me that, and all of them are evil.