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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Do you really have no idea how utterly obnoxious you sound to people who don't share your world view? I mean, here's a hint; it's exactly as obnoxious as you'd find some evangelical telling you about what a horrible, sinful, godless heathen you are, and that you're going to burn in hell for eternity. That is what you sound like to these people.
People aren't "having their feelings hurt". They don't care if you think they're bad people, because your criticisms come across as laughable. They couldn't give less of a #### if a white guy decides to wear a sombrero and a poncho to a costume party. If you point out "that's cultural appropriation", the reaction isn't hurt feelings, it's that you're wrong to make such a big deal out of it. If you then call them privileged and racist, they're not going to suddenly accept that this is a really big deal, they're going to recoil and tell you to go #### yourself. You might be self-righteous enough to think that that makes those people worse human beings than you, but I'm pretty confident that you can't defend that judgment at all convincingly. In any case, it wouldn't matter if it did make them worse human beings - you're still going to fail.
The point, at the end of the day, is that the world we want, where racism and homophobia and sexism have faded into obscurity, isn't going to happen by going down this path. You can't shame and moralize people into submission. You can't call average, well-meaning people bigots for not caring about what you care about as much as you do, and then tell them to vote for you. It's not going to work. You're just going to get more Trumps.
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Laffin' out loud if you think I walk around talking like this IRL.
I think the general populace is starting to take the internet far too seriously. If some people on a message board/Facebook/Reddit/etc. are walking around fuming about "regressive leftists" because I told them they are human garbage on the internet because of their bigoted views, they need to settle the #### down and chill and maybe re-asses why people think that.