Luminesa wrote:Grenartia wrote:
Making me look bad is easy when you take my words out of context.
Trust me, there's plenty of posts I didn't respond to. Also, letting blatant bullshit about my people go unanswered in this thread only allows said bullshit to attain an air of legitimacy. I have not only a right to challenge it, but an ethical duty to.
I recommend altering your posting habits accordingly. If you're going to respond to a post, make damn sure you didn't "skim over it". Read it as fully as you can before you respond to it. That's how I avoid that mistake entirely.
Sure, but children are also curious, and curiosity is a great opportunity for learning.
Did it not occur to you that I also happen to have some experience on the topic of child abuse? Did it not occur to you that I might already understand his position, backwards and forwards?
That's not what's happening here.
The actual quote she's pulling from, complete with context.
It shouldn't at all be controversial to say this, any more than it should be controversial to say you shouldn't trust Flat Earthers about geography (or a host of other subjects that prove the Earth is round). I completely stand by what I actually said.
There's two possibilities here. Either Lumi is blatantly lying by omission to gain sympathy points (which I really wouldn't want her to be guilty of), or she had another one of her "I skimmed too fast" moments. Neither is a good look for her, although one is far and away much better to be guilty of than the other. I'm more than willing to accept that she simply skimmed too fast, and will cite this as proof that she needs to actually make sure she reads people's posts before responding or reacting to them, especially since it can lead to others assuming the worst about her (which is the only reason I mentioned the other possibility).
This is an obscure forum on the Internet. I think you’re taking it far too seriously.
This is a community hub for a marginalized group on one of the larger internet forums outside of 4chan and Reddit. Most other forums are nowhere near as large as NS.
There’s not an “ethical duty”.
A lie that goes unchallenged becomes a lie that is widely-believed.
A widely-believed lie is FAR more dangerous than an unrecognized truth.
If I were to go around saying that all Catholics are child molesters and nobody stopped me, and other people started to believe it, and then they spread it themselves, and it starts snowballing, and people started basing how they treat Catholics on that lie, wouldn't you feel threatened, as a Catholic? So, therefore, wouldn't it make sense for you to nip the problem in the bud, and challenge the lie wherever it pops up, before it spirals out of control?
If you’re worried about that, Facebook is going to be a lot more influential than this little place.
Trivialization isn't a good look, fam.
Admittedly, skimming is a habit I’ve had for a long time. Oftentimes it works fine for me. Sometimes it doesn’t. It’s really not a big deal, and it’s not your job to police how I read. My reading abilities are far from sub-par, being a fast reader means sometimes you have to read something twice.
Its your choice, but I was only offering some helpful advice so you can avoid people automatically assuming the worst of you because of your stubborn refusal to properly read before responding.
Skimming is poor form, and you take any responsibility for additional headaches caused by continuing to do so.
Or you just don’t turn it into a personal issue.
I haven't turned it into a personal issue. However, I know it will inevitably turn into one if your skimming doesn't stop. And that's not just in this thread. On any other thread on any other section of this forum, you'll run into the same risk from skimming. It might be recommended practice for some shitty standardized test where you're under a time constraint, but really, even then, its just gambling that you won't misread. In this environment, you'll spend more time arguing about the things you misread than you'd spend reading properly the first time around.
Emphasis added on that last part so that I know you wouldn't skim past it.
It did, which is why I figured you would be less of a hostile gatekeeper, fearing people who disagree with whatever opinions you might have.
I do not fear 'opposing opinions'. If I did, I assure you, I'd have left this place a decade ago, and I'd have fucked off to 4chin, or Tumblr, or some other mindless echo chamber.
Feh, I guess it still means I can never have a discussion with you on abortion, since my views on the topic should be taken with a grain of salt?
Only with regards to factual claims made in support of your argument.