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In reply to the discussion: Tackling Asian Privilege [View all]The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)1. Didn't know the whole living history of the source as I had never been there before. To be honest, still don't care as it was not relevant to the idea behind the posting. That others care so much and it freaks them all out is somewhat sad. Get over it. One post out of over 45,000 and people get all judgey like.
2. One jury, two host threads, 20 rec's and the thread is still here. If it scarred the adults around here so bad yell at your local neighborhood hosts who brought their personal fights here. Again, it is one thread out of a zillion on du. Seriously? This upsets people and motivates them to action. Probably 20 posts about missing girls in Nigeria but hey, they weren't white kids from Europe so let's just glide on by those posts. Lots of great places to have a discussion and you spent your time here whining about me. Nice. I am flattered.
3. People trying to goad me into replying: I had my say early on in this thread. Trying to bait me into replying to hide a post of mine or just get something off your chest - well , that would be allowing you to control me and my response. So I just sat back and observed. And wow is all I can say.
4. All I was trying to prove was a simple point. Talk about any race other than whites and add privilege and people suddenly get all hypocritical like on the issue. It is like they think white people are a special group, magical even. Talk about one race in one way but condemn those exact same words when using another race...I see a problem there. If you don't, maybe we should have a hundred more threads like this everyday until you do. Funny how that works.
5. Sorry about the source, never read them before, never really had a reason too. Google turns up a lot of things ya know. I have over 60k link karma on reddit, over 45k posts, and that covers a little of the surfing and reading I do. Go ahead. Judge me over it and think I am some while nazi racist over a post or two. Whatever you have to tell yourself to ignore the ideas behind some posts. But hey, I did a little digging myself once people got all up in arms. Checked out the twitter of the author. Not really a fun guy, last I saw he was interviewing someone named greenwald on fox business. I guess all such posts relating to that out to freak you out now.
6. Get out more. Have some fun. This thread turned quickly into a mess. And it wasn't me who did that. Grab a mirror. Trash thread, ignore, don't kick it (I pass by a lot of threads), bash the source like somehow that makes a lick of difference. Whatever. But if this thread was so bad you think for DU don't kick the daylights out of it.
7. For my host friends. What the hell are you doing? Two threads in hosts for about 200 posts. But let's not look at my post for a sec. You have one there with about 40 replies and a basic consensus to lock. But people are fighting that lock because a few hosts don't agree. All the damned infighting here about this post and you can't even bring yourself to from a thread that started Thursday and had more lock votes (looks like 7-2 that day) that day - it is still being debated and it is Monday AM here. If I had felt that strongly over my thread I would have locked it and dealt with it later. It ain't the end of the world if a post stands. Ignore it, move on, and for god's sake don't kick the hell out of something you personally feel is offensive to others (unless maybe you don't really feel that way and have some ulterior motive....)
8. Lastly. I don't see the value of continually replying to my own thread here. I had my say, I stand by it, and if you all see and take away from something is racism and hate based on my post I wish you would spend as much time on my other posts. But then, this being DU, I really don't see that happening. Easier to complain and flame away over some manufactured outrage - lord I wish people had this much emotion over the real issues people post about. Some folks really miss meta and some folks have went to a lot of trouble to make du more about du and how people discuss issues than intelligent commentary on issues.
Enjoy And if some folks hide this I won't be all upset, easier to bury things we don't like than to confront them. I'll see you all around. Oh - and for the record: I did email Skinner early on about this thread and offered to delete it if he liked. It is his site. He told me basically I own the thread and the mods don't generally delete peoples' threads. I got one email from someone asking me to. Again, nice job reaching out to people there hosts. Later.