I hear ya and I feel ya. I do. Next time I'll double think the appropriateness of derailing through fuzzy animals. I promise. Though, in my defense, that puppy is pretty damn cute.
You did nothing wrong. That puppy was adorable, AND you were trying to avoid a nasty thing. But it was inevitable - I'm a subborn argument-causing person, and they are a militative "minority" that feels wronged at every corner.
I know I know, I just don't have any better term for them. They fight for minorities' visibility and... "privilege". Militative minority. Any better ideas?
I know, but I figured that since you were on Hubski you had something relevant to contribute.
Nope. Been here for almost 900 days (2.5 years) and I've never once contributed anything. I get daily messages asking me please for the love of God just submit something of value and I send them cat memes in response. All ribbing aside, I have nothing to say to someone who puts privilege in scare quotes and tries to dogwhistle his way out of a hole he made trying to sidestep fundamental issues of racial and gender inequality.
Alright, enjoy your echo chamber then. (Maybe you'd like Tumblr better though)
lol dude are you even real Who are you to tell somebody to leave the site that's been here almost 10 times as long? Is that smug-ass bullshit the best you can come up with to end an argument?
I'm not TELLING them to leave. I'm saying that for the type of content they're consuming and posting, Tumblr is more tailored towards that.
"Human being." A person who fights for the visibility of minorities and their "privilege." By God when a group of twenty-something-year-old boys got together and decided their best insult for me was my "man eyebrows" I thought 'this is it, this is the least insulting insult I'll have levied at me' and man I had not lived long enough at that point clearly because now, ladies and gentlepugs, we are at it. I believe we have hit the wall.
Except human beings is too wide. Reminder, it's also human beings who you claim have the privilege. It's human beings who are "putting you down". It's human beings that are insulting you. We ALL are human beings. From assholes to saints, from the whitest white man to the darkest person of color. To the most masculine man to the most feminine woman, and from the most feminine man to the most masculine woman. We all bleed the same blood, breathe the same air, bask in the warmth of the same sun. "A person who fights for the visibility of minorities and their "privilege"" is too much of a handful. It's a good way to stop being talked about if people have to remember that much. Name another group that has done any form of change with a name that long. And as for that quote? I used privilege in that way because guess what? It's a privilege that you have an internet connection to complain about your status. It's a privilege to be even ABLE to worry about such thing instead of worrying about food. What you're looking for is not privilege. Privilege is a word tumblrites and other socially inept people use to describe how "unfair" everything is. The word you are looking for is "advantages", "rights", "recognition". Most white people are actually on YOUR side. Hell - most white men are. That is until you demonize them. No positive change has occurred by shunning people and painting them as devils. Assholes comes in all shapes, colors, genders and identities. So do allies - try to find them. IT IS a very important fight you're fighting - so fight it right, and fight it for everyone. I don't mean to patronize or insult you. However, Hubski is a place of discussion - I disagree with your methods, at the moment, and so I seek to either make you understand my point of view or make you understand mine. Though I will be the first to admit I do not filter anything at all - I feel it is against the concept of discussion, because it prevents the hard questions from being asked.