The Feylands wrote:Wow – I managed to get a lot of you guys "triggered", didn't I?
You know what I'm tired of? Feeling guilt. Feeling guilt for standing up for western liberal democracy and being called a fascist or racist. Feeling guilt for being afraid of rapes, murders or the muggings that we've got now in my neighbourhood that never was here before - and being called someone who's listening to “fake news”. Feeling guilt for being angry about money that was meant for say disabled people going to fortune-seekers which is gonna lead us to "salvation" according to some perverse, unnatural political dogma. Feeling guilt for not believing in the cultural left's unholy dogma of a world without borders, sexes, families, nations or religions that is being bought to us through our suffering. For not believing in the emotional manipulation and demonization that separates people from family members and friends like members of the Scientology cult. For simply wanting to live in peace and eventually build a family in a world where my people gets the same respect as any others.
Another thing I'm tired of is people telling me I should feel guilt for offending their feelings for stating an opinion. I'll never be asking people about their private lives as it doesn't really concern me: but are they gonna use that as an argument, and talk about things like not eating or hurting themselves which I might actually know something about – I'm gonna give them whatever advice I can and then ask them to not use that as a political argument. All of us suffer in different ways from what's happening in the politics of our country. I have the greatest respect for people not feeling well on a psychiatric level - but not using that as a political argument. It's not doing any of us who have varying needs of help any good. It's making others not taking those issues serious anymore.
I get that the “BNP/KKK” could be a metaphor. I have my reservations about the French Front National or whatever. If you're really living in the free world, I hope there's a state protecting your rights – and if not, please do alert whatever anti-racist organizations like the SLPC or whatever there are in your country, and the police if necessary. No one should have to be afraid of living in a certain neighbourhood.
In my own constituency, a majority of the voters voted for an agenda that may have me raped or even murdered and mugged and have my home plundered for the sake of "equality". No one cares about my feelings on the matter - they're all full of their own. I swear I hope I don't hate them and just find them misguided, but I don't know if I'm being serious with myself. I might move to my ancestral hometown an hour away. Which might be the wisest thing to do if it comes to that. I have a couple of friends here who share my values, and that's really what's prevented me so far.
All I'm saying is: don't use people's empathy. Don't pressure people on an emotional level in the lines of insinuating that “if you vote a certain what you're the cause of my mental difficulties” or voting for an “anti-disabled agenda” (!!). We don't wanna be b̶o̶y̶ girl calling wolf story when we might be the people who'll be calling for help against the wolf for real one day.
Really? How did you get from my point, or from Luminesa's, that we're "triggered".
We're just telling you that you're coming across as callous, not to mention arrogant. It's not my personal problem you have issues with reading comprehension, so get off that high fucking horse you're apparently trying to ride on. Nobody really gives a fuck about your moral indignation about shit.
You come here and say "don't use empathy!" and yet you're here dragging your moral spiel against anything you don't like and that has nothing to do with the thread. Do us all a favor, and go back and read our objections. Actually read them. And once you do, come back and try to understand that the problem is not your difference of opinion. It's your callousness and cavalier attitude about the situation. Meanwhile, you're just a young lady who has no fucking clue of what she's talking about. I've tried to be nice, and that didn't work. I am done being nice. Go back and read, or otherwise take the shit without screaming "YOU'RE SO TRIGGERED OMG!", because nobody cares about your opinion if all you got behind your opinion is thinly-laced shit flinging towards people you don't know, and you don't care to know, beyond "eat a fucking bag of concrete and harden the fuck up". Having an opinion is fine. You're not coming across as someone who has an opinion. You come across as someone with an axe to grind towards people who are different than you, and if this is the case, I don't have to respect your opinion just because it is an opinion. It's actually not that hard to phrase your commentary in a way that's not callous and cavalier so people react better to what you have to say because, really, you're not typing for yourself. I'm typing in a rude manner to make a point, but I am not typing just so only I can make sense of what I'm saying.
I can understand your situation, and my empathies, but let me tell you something: I've had people pin me against the wall for a difference in opinion. I've had people threaten to kick my ass, even amongst my family, for a difference in opinion, or because, in their opinion "I can't take a joke". Don't come here all sanctimonious and try to preach about how you're so oppressed and we just all need to harden the fuck up, because you don't know the shoes we're walking on. I hope to fucking God you never have to walk a mile in mine. My rights are protected by the government of the United States, yes. But all of that doesn't matter because tonight someone can shoot me dead in the streets and those rights meant nothing. For the record, I am not disabled, I've just had a shitty life I don't wish upon anyone.
So, please, stop trying to make yourself the victim here. I'm not. All I am telling you is, I am an asshole and not even I come here and kick someone while they're down. If I don't do it and I've been labeled as a scumbag in this forum and as an asshole and stupid, what makes you think it is acceptable to do that?
I mean, if you think being this woman with a chip on her shoulder that can take on the entire liberal community in NS without having to worry about her tone, or about certain unspoken camaraderie even when either side is embattled with one another, is amusing to you, or even to your interests to be here, you can go ahead and dismiss me as cuckoo, or an idiot, or a random on the internet who is an asshole to you, or whatever. I don't want to know if you do, and I don't care about which category of <insert curse word here> you put me into. However, I had to address this just as I do with other people who do the same.