But... but... but... what could possibly be wrong with someone obsessed with class claiming he's inherited the power to excrete rainbows from his every pore?
I didn't say that you lied. I said that you tended to namecheck your parents' actions as if they conferred virtue on you.
I, too, have gotten flak for my parents' actions. Most notably, my best friend was forbidden to talk to me after my parents sold their house to a black family. But it was my parents who made that decision, not me. My parents were the ones who dealt with the flaming cross on the lawn. I was along for the ride.
If you cite something *you* have done, in adulthood, that will carry more weight than repeatedly citing your parents' admirable work, and the things you did in their company when you were growing up.
I prefer people not to use racial slurs (and, frankly, most slurs full stop) in my space. I know you're new to my journal so you wouldn't have known that but I'm going to screen your comment. I'll also reproduce the content of your comment (minus the slur) but I'll only do that once, as a courtesy, and if you badger my commentors then I'll ban you.
willshetterly said: "I was not in my parents' company when I was beaten for being a [person who likes black people]. Just sayin'. As for the invitation to be defensive, no, I do not play that game."
Thank you for your restrained answer to willshetterly's ad hominem attack on you. I'm not going to allow him to do that in my lj (give me a few moments for the dial-up the chug along while I deal).
As jonquil has explained, she neither said nor implied any such thing about you (in fact, if someone had done so I would probably have told them not to). You're misreading her comment. Please don't compound that first error with badgering her (or anyone else) or I'll ban you from my journal.
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I, too, have gotten flak for my parents' actions. Most notably, my best friend was forbidden to talk to me after my parents sold their house to a black family. But it was my parents who made that decision, not me. My parents were the ones who dealt with the flaming cross on the lawn. I was along for the ride.
If you cite something *you* have done, in adulthood, that will carry more weight than repeatedly citing your parents' admirable work, and the things you did in their company when you were growing up.
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willshetterly said: "I was not in my parents' company when I was beaten for being a [person who likes black people]. Just sayin'. As for the invitation to be defensive, no, I do not play that game."
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As jonquil has explained, she neither said nor implied any such thing about you (in fact, if someone had done so I would probably have told them not to). You're misreading her comment. Please don't compound that first error with badgering her (or anyone else) or I'll ban you from my journal.
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