OT Either stop locking threads or close the OT forum down

Valley of Sickness........and in the spring, southern Illinois and Kentucky are worse. But that’s just my experience....

 

Hey, I didn’t even know I had any “real” allergies until I did some traveling. Couldn’t wait to get back to Oregon and roll in a grass or hay field just to feel better.....

 

Ha!
I remember getting some god awful crud in the South Pacific. Like nothing you can find anywhere in this country. Well maybe in those swamps around DC.

 

It’s almost like, neither side is willing to see where the other is coming from....

They both keep trolling each other....

Except one side constantly demonizes an entire demographic of people. So until that stops I don’t think there will be much progress on this board.

 

Why can't it just be condescending and not racist?

If you walked up to a redneck with a hillbilly accent and said, with a condescending tone of voice, "I'ma edumacate you," how well would that go?

People don't like to be talked down to. To me, saying "edumacate" is a way of making fun of people with bad grammar. Maybe with poor intelligence. To me, it has always been about making fun of people from the south.... not necessarily black or white. But I have also heard people at school (when I went to school) say something along the lines of "I'm gettin me an edumacation!" That's really the only way that I have heard that word. So that's why I had never thought of it as any kind of racist context.

Not everything is an attack on you man. If you have a different perspective, and someone has a genuine question, why not just talk about it?

 

You guys are like the Jedi. It's not just about the light and the dark baby! Sometimes you need to live in the grey.

Discussion is about discord. It can't be all hunky dory all the time. People have arguments. The only time I would have stepped in is if someone starts bringing up personal shit that has nothing to do with the argument. PapaG liked to take shots at my writing career, or at my wife. That was what separated him from other posters. Most people are happy to just slam on your posts, and that's fine. I'm totally fine with trading shots over thoughts and opinions. And for the most part, I don't carry grudges. In fact, usually I'll just skip over someone if I find them boring or a broken record. I don't even need to ignore them. I just automatically skip over them when I'm scrolling through. To me, that's the worst thing that can happen to you on a forum.... become boring and irrelevant. Why even come here if nobody is going to read or comment on what you write?

 

Even if it was "just condescending", then it was still an attack on him. You don't care about treating people with respect as long as nobody calls you the r-word.

 

What can I say..... age over beauty.

I had to lob something out there to make him feel good....

 

This is what happened.

Dviss told someone to “educate” themselves in a condescending way.

I then made a joke about how we need to be more edumacated like dviss.

I made the joke, because I didn’t think the shit Dviss was so admant about people learning, was really, all that complicated? (Or needed everyday knowledge) Definitley not something I would boast about having knowledge of, then condescendingly tell someone to educate themselves on.

So no, it had nothing to do with race. But of course, if you ask Dviss, I’m sure there’s a different story.

 

Bingo!
It offends me when someone does this sort of thing with the intent to offend anyone. Usually the person is simply revealing their own faults. No other labels needed.

Correction
Perhaps I should not say it offends me. But I do cringe when see the intent to belittle.

 

Didn't he get called racist for it? Why can't the other party also say, "Dude, I didn't mean to offend you. Sorry."

 

Usually, the (over)reacting person apologizes AFTER the person who offended him apologizes. Guess what never happened, though.