Seven minutes of free time today

[yendi]

That's my schedule for the day. For reals (and I only have that because a meeting ended early).

So this will be brief:

The ability to post something vile, hateful, and racist calmly does NOT actually make you intellectual, passionate, honorable, unemotional, logical, or any such crap. It simply makes you calm.

Likewise, getting upset over something you posted does not make the person getting upset unintellectual, nor does the presence of an emotional reaction inherently undercut the arguments a person might be making.

As you were.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Yay? :/

I really feel like people don't care what people like us have to say, or really believe that we could be honest or good people. Or maybe it's that they don't think the people they're protecting feel safe just knowing we exist, so they'd rather we just shut up so they can create a fiction of a world that exists without us, for the benefit of those people.

I mean, the violence level I'm feeling is really high and very terrifying.

[ron_newman]

I feel way out of context here ... who is 'us' ?

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

You feel as if you have been threatened with violence?