It's funny when someone makes fun of me...
How do you know I am not handicapped and this is very insulting to me?
It's funny when someone makes fun of me...
How do you know I am not handicapped and this is very insulting to me?
I'm not sure it has much to do with the thickness of skin of anybody, or anyone needing "to put up with" with what they or the moderator of the site deems as offensive or behavior outside the stated conduct policy. To me, its just that simple.
IMHO, throwing any of it back on those feeling the insult or pinpointed as the target of the insult falls into the "blaming the victim" category...
On your last point, I didn't get condescension at all. I got, "I'm willing to overlook the feelings of others, so I can keep getting advice from someone I know to cross certain boundaries. That my friend is a very self-interested lack of empathy for others and a major character flaw in the typical, prevalent American mindset.
Its what allows 1 in 4 women to be sexually assaulted during their lifetime because we don't want to lose face with "the guys". Its what allows the news media to focus on how a particular young black male might be dressed or was arrested for something in their youth instead of the fact that he was innocently gunned down by a BART transit cop in the case of Oscar Grant ( as depicted in Fruitvale Station ), or in Ferguson recently, or in Sanford, FL or any of the other myriad of similar cases.
Its what excuses animal cruelty, mean spirited bullying in schools, passerbys casually walking past victims of crimes, etc. etc.
Am I piling on for effect? Probably, but I don't see the difference in any of it.
There's plenty of meanness in the world, most of us don't come here to get more of it and shouldn't have to choose between, "putting up with it" or not participating.
What I found funny was the exchange of posts and, unlike much of your hero's image uploads, had nothing to do with your physical appearance or mental capacity.
Really?slow-normal 12 year old
Time for some Chinese...no I think I need something spicier, Indian it is....
I'm plenty grown up and that old wives tale you neocons keep repeating to yourselves about when you liberals "grow up' you'll go to the extreme right too, is the same kind of narrow minded, factually vacant wishful thinking that keeps your side of the political pendulum nothing more than a tiny minority of thought in this great and wonderful experiment in democracy we live in.
Its a pretty sick and sad world you live in when advocating mutual respect for others, empathy for those under attack, adherence to the rules of a forum, holding people accountable for their actions and transgressions are viewed as a "prejudice" or symptoms of a "disease".
throwing the insults around so freely doesn't gin you one iota of respect from me and simply proves you're not much better than the guy this stupid thread was created for.
This whole thread bores me and its outlived any usefulness to anyone involved, so I'm done.
So, the poster who turned it political and made a few overtly political judgements and stereotypical insults gets off scott free in your critique of why things on the thread turned political? I wonder if its because you're politically more aligned with his perspective?...
The other point being that no human being has ever been dealt any harm by words. At least no harm that they didn't chose for themselves.
Hadn't actually occurred to me, but that is another brilliant observation!
...but I'll have Chinese!