Weasel language

[kainrocket]

Hi Internet,

If you dog pile someone from a socially accepted unassailable position of strength you are not a hero. Particularly if you engage in dissent shaming and complain about people being mindless. Then go on to imply that this person is engaging in behaviour, or in this case thinking, that contributes to a pretty damn serious issues like

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Re: Continued, due to Vladimir Putin's character limits

[unclejam]

My deleted comment was a little knee-jerky of me. I apologize.

I do not mean to disdain your perspective, your person, or your right to your opinion. On a purely personal level I feel that you are telling me these things as if you are my guru or a preacher, and I resent it because I feel you - Cemil - are talking down to me - Tom. I do not find it friendly or amusing.

I will give an example from your remark for the sake of absolute clarity of what I am referring to.

It's okay if you resent the idea I put forward, because it was meant to be uncomfortable. Part of this was making about confronting people about their behavior by saying to them that unwittingly their behavior today may be recognized as destructive in the future.

I will grant that you have both every right to your perspective, and I will even grant that it is certainly quite likely that in fifty years there will be as much confusion over our backward foolishness as there is now, over attitudes of the past.

That said, I find this extremely condescending and I do not feel that you have some inborn right to issue me a life lesson out of nowhere. I am uncomfortable when people come to me explicitly to ask for advice; with you, I seem to be getting a ton of it. You infer things that I have neither said nor alluded to, such as somehow reading in that I am claiming you were not bullied when you were younger when I have expressed that I am very sensitive to calling other people bullies due to my own perspectives.

You say I am your friend and you want to have a drink with me; I would wonder, if this is how you address your friends, how you must speak to your enemies. If you would like to issue people moral lessons I would encourage you to cultivate better methods of approach. Whatever lesson you are attempting to impart to me is clearly transmitting poorly.

Thank you for your time.