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StealThisSheen posted...

The reason people tend to not "I'm glad you got better" in these situations is because you keep giving these takes that makes it sound like you have not, in fact, gotten better. You keep pushing the same beliefs and protecting the same kinds of behaviors and making the same arguments and criticizing the same people when they say something is wrong or offensive.

As a progressive, I have to make sure my portfolio is ironclad, and I can defend it. This means I can't jump on the bandwagon of everything that twitter thinks is offensive. I have to actually self-reflect, and consider where I stand. Defending bad ideas that I don't agree with will damage my authenticity, which, I think even you will agree I have in spades. If it's not a bad idea, and I'm wrong, usually I can count on the board to correct me, which they often do. I think The reason you think I defend the same type of people and critique the same type of person is because we are on a liberal board, where even the hardest right of us is fairly socially progressive compared to the norm. If you had caught me during the DWMF topics, you probably would have seen the opposite me. If you caught me talking to the people in my rural neighborhood, you would see the opposite me (Though he would be saying the exact same things).

Furthermore, as I've pointed out, I'm an asshole. I defend people I see myself inside, not to justify their behaviours but to offer both the assholes and the "victims" of assholery a way forward. Would my time be better spent defending the sensitive, the fragile, the broken? Perhaps it would, but I'm better equipped to help assholes get better, and help people find peace with assholes, and it seems the others have the help they need even without me.

Even in topics where there's a progressive issue I'm passionate about, there's usually already people ready to take up the charge on this board, and they usually have a better grasp on how to defend the issue than me. The fact that you're using the word snowflake means you had a box to put me in and you put me in it. Just so you know, in other arguments I would be called the snowflake or the SJW or the liberal pile o' sticks so if there's a group out there that accepts my ideals I sure as hell haven't found it.

Ultimately I don't really believe in shame as an effective tool (I use it against you guys ironically, I hope no one thinks I'm genuinely ashamed of them[but I doubt anyone would lose sleep if they did]) I believe in self-actualization, making peace with each other's flaws, and a diverse landscape of ideas. I believe being rough around each other is how we learn to get close with each other, which is why I love a culture of put-downs, roasting, and scathing commentary.

Yeah, I do act holier than thou most of the time, but in my defense, thou sucks shit sometimes so I like to flex it when a rat like me gets to wear the halo.

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wird