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user-inactivated  ·  3655 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Darron Wilson not indicted

I see what you mean, but I have to disagree that expecting civility on hubski should ever be construed as a form of privilege.

I certainly won't hold a grudge, though. I hope it helped some people to vent.





coffeesp00ns  ·  3654 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm with you. there is justifiable rage, and then there is being incapable of 1.) putting it down in words (and appealing to emotions instead) and 2.) living with the fact that people, even people you might respect, disagree with you. telling people to "leave" or not to speak is not, and will never be okay, or justifiable.

I've said this before in other places, and have even been accused of "internalized victim blaming" for believing it, but I believe that the moment you lose your cool in an argument (especially on the internet), you've lost, and it's your fault that you lost. Nothing but calm, cool, and collected is going to get a message across, and all the screaming into the wind that people do accomplishes nothing.

Don't like someone's opinion? have a fight. While i'd prefer civil (if terse) discourse, I'd rather a fight than shitty college undergrad level censorship.

user-inactivated  ·  3654 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And the additional layer, the point I was trying to make early in the thread, is that appeals to emotion are what causes racism. Appeals to base biological impulses which we've been trying to stamp out with reason since time immemorial.