LogFAQs > #948001963

Yeah, as I said, I was arguing about what he was claiming, which is was being posted and also being attacked at the time. The dick press isn't a move I'll defend unless you're married/in a long term relationship to the person. I was trying to be concise in my summary because, as I said, rehashing this old argument isn't really something I think is productive.

StealThisSheen posted...

This is part of the problem, though. You rely so hard on what you, personally, think is offensive that you seem to think then nobody could reasonably find X offensive and so they must be snowflakes, looking to be offended, whatever. And then you criticize those people and go into "Sniff own farts" mode instead of trying to understand where they're coming from. You don't appear to want to look past your own feelings and experiences to accept that others don't share those same feelings and experiences.

Not entirely true. In the last topic of this sort, I asked someone to explain why they found a public statement offensive. When they refused, I explained why I thought their take was offensive. The person in question then decided to use alternating caps and lower case to clarify that they were right.

Tom Bombadil posted...

What I am hearing this boil down to is that you like to play devil's advocate to help jerks be less jerky

Usually there's a level of damage that happens when virtue posturing happens that I want to fight. Both for the personal PR of progressive ideals and also in consideration for the people who are hurt by by people who use "woke" as a matter of status and class instead of lifting each other up.

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