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Originally Posted by AcGold
All? Why do you feel the need to make such sweeping generalizations like this? As if some of you never once made a statement could be skewed. You are the ones making accusations and slandering me, I have no bone to pick and generally go out of my way to avoid arguments. It's Rubecube and Chill Cosby trying to attack me but that makes me quick to pull the you are all attacking me card?
Some of you need to realize that in many of your posts there are also small fallacies that can be picked apart to fit whatever argument I've got but I don't. The need of a select few to make yourselves feel self-righteous is tiring, if I say something that has a small fallacy so what? None of you is perfect either. No need to make sweeping character generalizations, you wonder why I complain? How about not jumping off the handle so quickly if something offends you.
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No one is attacking you. We were attacking your arguments. You decided to take things personally. And I'm not trying to be self-righteous. I used to be one of the most thoughtless, insensitive #######s in the world, who used to believe that whenever I pissed someone off it was their fault for being too sensitive. Then I got a little older and realized that some of things I said and did were pretty god damn harmful to a lot of people, so I've endeavoured to be more empathetic, and have tried to look at issues from a variety of perspectives as opposed to just my own. I also stopped taking it personally when people would attack me for my beliefs or my arguments. They weren't not attacking me, just as I'm not attacking you. They were attacking all the oppression and nonsense that many of my beliefs represented to them. I don't think any of us can truly understand what a lot of these women, minorities, etc., go through from our varying positions of privilege. That's not to say we lack the ability to be sympathetic, but it's virtually impossible to understand what all those obstacles feel like when you're not the one constantly facing them (and I'm not discounting any of your own obstacles, which I guarantee I might not be able to understand).
So no, it's not self-righteousness. I'm trying to impress upon you that your actions and words have real-world consequences on people, whether you think they're being oversensitive or not.