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Now, PW - this is, I think, the last time I will actually address you in this thread, as it has proven largely unproductive.
I'd like to do something in the hope that you will, in your belief that we are somehow equal contributors to Barbelith, imitate it. I am going to acknowledge fault. It was unwise of me to refer to your habit of collecting multiracial friends in terms of Pokemon. It was a reference to toksik, himself riffing on your slightly jaw-dropping statement, referenced here> This would not have happened if you were not a) in the habit of using your non-white friends as bargaining chips to try to win arguments, b) calling people racist for no reason except personal animosity and c) telling people to listen to Gil Scott-Heron, as if you were the only white boy ever to be allowed into the sacred brotherhood of people who have listened to Gil Scott-Heron. I find all of these habits patronising, tokenistic and, ultimately, offensive. However, it was a mistake to treat what is a serious issue so lightly. It was also a mistake to call you a trustafarian - this was an unfair inference from the behavioural tics of your previous "some of my best friends are"gasm.
I was going to apologise for asking, rhetorically (yes, kids, that _was_ rhetoric), if you were on crack, but actually I don't think that was unfair. The original mistake - that I assumed by having a smoke that you meant weed - was an honest one, and might have explained this bizarre trollspurt. Your subsequent obsessive attempts to "prove" that I was drunk on Friday night are rather self-defeating, since even had I drunk a bathtub of vodka to the dregs there is still not one person in this thread who has suggested for a moment that my Private Messages to you were incomprehensible, or indeed were less comprehensible than yours. Quite the reverse, in fact. However, I will apologise for sinking to that level again with the crack crack, not to you but to the rest of Barbelith, as it gave you another metal plate to weld to your victarmour.
Now, I have just admitted fault. An awful lot of people in this thread have asked you, an awful lot of times, whether an awful lot of things you have said recently have been wise, well-advised, not trolling and so on. So far, you appear largely to have ignored these questions, responded to them with wild tangents or just flat-out insulted the people who have asked them. Are you going to try to take on board and respond civilly to their concerns, and indeed try to amend your behaviour? Or are you going to keep insisting that everyone else is completely wrong and that you are completely right, and thus that any way you choose to behave is totally justified, you refuse to accept that anyone else on Barbelith who disagrees with this has any validity and that moderators should just step back, unless they are rubber-stamping your own edits, and let you do whatever you want?
I don't expect an answer to any of these questions, or at least not a useful one, but I would like you to think about them. And, if it's not too late, maybe you could start to try to work back to a gentle simmer. The link you posted to your first ever thread was saddening reminder that there was a time when you communicated in paragraphs, attempted to make some connection between what you and other people were saying, and didn't... well, didn't troll. If your login survives this week, there's profit in trying to do that again. |
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