Well, that's not quite true, is it? For one thing, we are only going to this length because you demanded that we address it, by reposting the deleted conversation not once but twice, here and in the "Oh dear" thread. So, that's all you.
Well I just ranted as a barbannoy, but wasn't demanding that it was addressed. I'd have preferred it if you'd have just ignored me now aswell, heh.
Second, it is not the case that many other sites on the net would not have responded to it - if you had posted it to the forum of the NAACP, for example, or the ACLU, I imagine you might have found that it would have been responded to pretty sharply.What you mean is that other bulletin boards you frequent would not have responded to it. In this case, you have decided that these other bulletin boards are "right" in their attitudes - which, coincidentally, happens also to be your attitude - and that Barbelith is wrong - is uptight and takes things too seriously.
You have it right there when you say pretty sharply. It probably wouldn't have gone into this length, even at the stage where I posted twice here. It might've just been a quick response, or some flame or something that got me to shut up, I don't know tbh, because I'm not in that situation.
All this actually _means_ is that you are, perfectly naturally, assuming that there is a naturally correct level of uptightness, and that you happen to operate at it.
Nope, I rarely operate at any type of correct level of anything, but I still think that I can have the ability to notice an imbalance in the way things happen here, but if you guys are happy with the way the place is and most of the members are, then that makes me wrong, so it doesn't matter at all.
Now, that is perfectly natuural - it's normal to assume that your reaction to stimuli is correct, and that anyone who reacts differently is just being difficult. See, for example, XK's trouble getting her father to understand the implications of the things he forwards - memes, if you like - here. Or Gourami's trouble getting somebody to confront the consequences of their actions when they posted offensive jokes about Chicano/a people on their noticeboard, here.
Thanks, will have a look at those links, and you might be right to an extent with me thinking other people are being difficult, and that my reaction is a decent bit less correct than I usually think it is.
However. A little reflection might help one to consider that it would be a remarkable coincidence if _everyone else_ was wrong all the time if they did not react like you, and you were by the same token right, also all the time.
Well I don't think to those extremes, but I sometimes think that people who have had issues have just ended up leaving in the past, or have got tired of trying to debate the issues they've had.
People here have told you that a) your post was threadrot (which I think is incontestable), but it is pretty clear that the response to the threadrot aspect was aggravated and exacerbated by, as TTS has posted while I draft this, some abreaction to the apparent dismissal or mockery of questions of the treatment of race, and that dismissal involving a funny animated GIF of a black child - and the idea that you had this funny black child and were looking for an excuse to stick it into a thread is not entirely helpful as an alternative. This is quite important to understanding the response you got, I think - it is not "random gif in the middle of a thread", but "random gif exhibiting questionable use of issues of race in thread discussing, among other things, issues of race". That's important, here, and I think it's something that you haven't really got a handle on.
Yeah, well I'll make sure to double check anything involving race issues even if I'm joking around with gifs then.
Cheers again for the help. |
