Everyone say hello to the jerk.... (that's me)

[hushdawg]

Some of y'all already know how famous (or infamous) I've inadvertently become in some communities.

It all started last summer over two simple posts.

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[hushdawg]

But I have to say that I appreciate the hell out of this post. It is sincere and thorough, and I honestly believe that people merely took some comments the wrong way. But that is par for the course with people becoming increasingly hyper politically correct.

Thank you.

I rarely ever make public posts specifically because my LJ has been used against me IRL before but I wanted this entry to be public so that if the hive-minders wanted to see my true feelings that it would be bared open.

The people you had the misfortune of dealing with in C_S are the same ones that dogpiled me in the first two posts I described here and who followed me around in CS and B_S for ages spouting random hatefulness at me.

I'm not perfect.. but I certainly wish these other people would stop pretending that they are.

I don't even think it's about being PC anymore. Being PC means that you're sensitive to other people's feelings and avoid obviously charged conversations and terms. Being PC means that you understand that some words have inherent power of bigotry and should be purged from each person's internal lexicon.

What this mess is goes way beyond being PC and goes into anticipating offense of some random imaginary person.

Seriously, if someone is going to be offended by someone else saying "That was a lame argument" they ought to just curl up and die right now because there's more offensive things than that in a McDonald's menu.

[dmitchell1985]

You're welcome.

I suppose that I have been lucky with my LJ not having been used. An old manager that added me on FB tried bitching me out at work about stuff I posted under a friends lock, so I blocked her and kept my content posted. lol

You're are most certainly correct. I thought perhaps I was one of the only people that have noticed this trend among people in general. They information they spout is sometimes not even correct, but they are so overly passionate about things that may or may not have anything to do with them. It's sad that you can't have simple discussion without some attention-seeker showing up and ruining the entire things.

But then a phrase like "Don't feed the trolls" wouldn't exist without them. ;D