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clevermanka) wrote2014-08-21 11:36 am
clevermanka) wrote2014-08-21 11:36 am
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Walk the talk
Got to kick another ignorant asshat to the curb on FB yesterday. Yay. So far, everyone whining about how I don't give men/cops/oppressors a fair shake and listen to their side of the story have all been white men. This is my surprised face.
Here are some of my favorites of his comments:
"Is it acceptable to call out anti-white racism too? Or is it strictly anti-black racism that needs attention?"
"Perhaps I am too far removed from the norm to see that racism and misogyny are encouraged...Maybe we should aim to have everyone say 'I'm not like that' and have it be true. Because there are, in fact, people who are not like that."
"...the leap to the argument that "(The Black Man) Has no rights which the white man is bound to respect." Is, thus far unsupported."
"Based on personal observation, I see far more prejudice and discrimination directed towards whites and americans, preemptively, than I do the other way around."
After nearly three days of this bullshit (no kidding--he kept this up for three goddamned days), and after he posted a "think of the poor cops" comment, I replied:
"X, you have crossed a line. You posted a "but please think of the cops" comment RIGHT UNDER someone who had a traumatic experience with police brutality. I am all for fair conversation, but you continue to fail to acknowledge (among other things) the fact that good cops are in the EXTREME minority and they are COMPLETELY failing to condemn the behavior of their comrades. Please feel free to not comment here anymore. Also feel free to chastise me for being closed-minded or participating in censorship. But the first amendment only protects you from the government telling you that you can't say something. It doesn't protect you from my telling you that you're acting like a jerk and to stop saying hurtful things in my presence. Also feel free to think less of me for not being open-minded to other points of view. That's fine. I cannot and will not engage in a friendly manner with someone who has such a disparate view on basic human rights. Don't bother responding. Please. Don't bother."
And then his truly epic flounce:
"No bother, but you've just shown why you are unlikely to succeed in affecting any positive change. You have my sympathy."
So that's one thing FB is good for. Helps me weed out the fucking assholes. Unfortunately, it also does nasty things to my blood pressure. I've been short-tempered and nasty lately. Sorry,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mckitterick. I need to incorporate ways to remain engaged in politics and social change without it taking such a toll on my mental health. I tell people that in order to care for others we must first care for ourselves. Time to apply that to my own life.
Here are some of my favorites of his comments:
"Is it acceptable to call out anti-white racism too? Or is it strictly anti-black racism that needs attention?"
"Perhaps I am too far removed from the norm to see that racism and misogyny are encouraged...Maybe we should aim to have everyone say 'I'm not like that' and have it be true. Because there are, in fact, people who are not like that."
"...the leap to the argument that "(The Black Man) Has no rights which the white man is bound to respect." Is, thus far unsupported."
"Based on personal observation, I see far more prejudice and discrimination directed towards whites and americans, preemptively, than I do the other way around."
After nearly three days of this bullshit (no kidding--he kept this up for three goddamned days), and after he posted a "think of the poor cops" comment, I replied:
"X, you have crossed a line. You posted a "but please think of the cops" comment RIGHT UNDER someone who had a traumatic experience with police brutality. I am all for fair conversation, but you continue to fail to acknowledge (among other things) the fact that good cops are in the EXTREME minority and they are COMPLETELY failing to condemn the behavior of their comrades. Please feel free to not comment here anymore. Also feel free to chastise me for being closed-minded or participating in censorship. But the first amendment only protects you from the government telling you that you can't say something. It doesn't protect you from my telling you that you're acting like a jerk and to stop saying hurtful things in my presence. Also feel free to think less of me for not being open-minded to other points of view. That's fine. I cannot and will not engage in a friendly manner with someone who has such a disparate view on basic human rights. Don't bother responding. Please. Don't bother."
And then his truly epic flounce:
"No bother, but you've just shown why you are unlikely to succeed in affecting any positive change. You have my sympathy."
So that's one thing FB is good for. Helps me weed out the fucking assholes. Unfortunately, it also does nasty things to my blood pressure. I've been short-tempered and nasty lately. Sorry,
mckitterick. I need to incorporate ways to remain engaged in politics and social change without it taking such a toll on my mental health. I tell people that in order to care for others we must first care for ourselves. Time to apply that to my own life.
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Two and a half days despite numerous people offering links, articles, statistics, personal experience, etc. It was amazing. And he actually said "I resent being called willfully ignorant."
What a fucking douchebag.
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wha?!!! It sounds like he is trying *really* hard to remain so. Like, *really* hard.
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Though friends of friends aren't always so polite- one guy, an NRA member (paint me surprised), attacked me when I pointed out the reporting flaws in a piece our mutual friend had posted and took issue with my (I thought) noncontroversial statement that of COURSE modern mass shootings involve guns. Multiple people I don't know sprang to my defense, but he kept pushing it, saying I was being deliberately provocative, so it was my fault he misread my original complaint. I mocked him with firearm puns.
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Whee! Thank you! My favorite part about when this stuff happens (I've kicked three men off my FB at various points) is that they're always all "I feel sorry for you" and "it must be hard to be like you" or "you're limiting yourself by closing yourself off from differing opinions." And I'm just like seriously? You think I'm going to miss your company? You think my life is somehow made lesser from not dealing with your own specific brand of bigotry?
I mocked him with firearm puns.
OMG I love mocking people SO MUCH and I get to do it SO RARELY. Doesn't it just feel so good? Mmmmmmm. I love it when people underestimate just how few fucks I give about their bigoted opinions of me.
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Oh how I miss being on the front lines of these posts.. but dear lawd, how I love coming here later and seeing the fine opinions posted by our mutual and your other friends.
It's good to see the asshats fall away.
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It is. It's called Facebook.
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ways to remain engaged in politics and social change without it taking such a toll on my mental health.
And there lies the trick. I've never been able to come up with a way to do it, so I stay out of political/social issues on any sort of online forum at all. It's all I can do for my sanity's sake.
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The rest of them can fuck right the fuck off. These are all people I know in Real Life, but it hasn't been dramatic. They act like asshats, I cut them out of my life. No drama on my end! =D
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I solved the FB problem by leaving the whole platform. I don't have time for that much asshattery.
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