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To address your comments:
I honstely don't know whether I house a huge desire to raise my game - At least, not in the way you think is appropriate.
That's fine. In which case, you will probably have to accept that you will be treated like somebody who is not interested in not attacking the core values of Barbelith, which may at some point result in you getting banned from Barbelith, or simply treated with contempt and/or hostility from growing numbers of people until those who are left who want to interact with you have nothing of worth to contribute to your ongoing story. It takes a lot to create that level of consensus, but it is possible to manage it if yuou put in the effort.
At the same time, I can see how some of the blanket statements, rushed and ill-considered, are making me look unobjective and narrow-minded, but then, I'm much more for a subjective take on things these days anyway.
I don't think anyone mentioned the words "unobjective" or "narrow-minded". Specifically, I think that you are making racist generalisations about Israelis and Palestinians, and displaying in your analysis a level of ignorance about Israeli politics incommensurate with making statements about them. Subjectively, you're coming across to me as somebody who is making cretinous statements based on very little knowledge or life experience. That may not be the experience, subjectively, of others. If it is, then a broader general perception of you as somebody prone to thoughtlessness, generalisations based on ignorance and prejudice is likely to affect your experience of Barbelith. Find me a single instance of somebody using the word "objective" to describe their position and we'll talk about that.
I don't think that being subjective is a bad thing in itself, and from what you've written it would seem you only think it's a bad thing when it generates certain results - Like generalisations, or commentry that can be easily mis-read.
Or ill-informed nonsense, or racist generalisations, quite. As I say, I don't think objective/subjective is a dichotomy anyone has raised yet.
For example, yes I phrased the gipsy thing wrong. my intention, not fully illustrated, was to get across the idea that I would never go so far as to attempt to portray Brian Harvey as a gypsy, but that I WOULD definitely support the perception of him as a chav.
But have you examined the terminologies here? This entire thread originated in a racist generalisation about gypsies. There is a thread here about the use of the word "chav". If you aren't interested in hearing what other people think about this, why would you expect other people to be interested in hearing what you think, up to and including providing you with a login name and password to post on Barbelith?
It related to earlier stories about a gypsy being run over with his own vehicle.
No, it didn't. I mentioned that story, which was a story in the Sun in which it claimed that a gypsy - their term, not mine - ran somebody else over in that somebody else's own vehicle. This is not about your beautiful subjectivity. It is about you not paying enough attention to what somebody else has written - not respecting their subjectivity, if you want to put it in those terms. |
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