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Once again there seems to be some huge mess on LJ about a srs issue. I'm reading it a little, but am not touching it with a bargepole. As the t-shirt says: Don't argue with idiots, because they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. And then I found this post. I'm not going to link to it directly because that would be derailing their whole point. They want to discuss racial discrimination seriously, I'm just seeing their post and applying it to an issue of my own.
"hmm. I don't know. lets interrogate this from another perspective. what we're not taking into account here is the specialness of how white people interact with white people, how important and relevant that is to everything, and also the fact that the internet is like Vegas. what people do here has no connection with what they do elsewhere or who they ~really~ are or any real consequences at all, and we are probably being mean and orc-like thinking that it does."
So true, and so close to having me unspeakably angry yet again.
"hmm. I don't know. lets interrogate this from another perspective. what we're not taking into account here is the specialness of how white people interact with white people, how important and relevant that is to everything, and also the fact that the internet is like Vegas. what people do here has no connection with what they do elsewhere or who they ~really~ are or any real consequences at all, and we are probably being mean and orc-like thinking that it does."
So true, and so close to having me unspeakably angry yet again.