01-24-2022, 11:26 AMboom Wrote:

01-24-2022, 11:08 AMAccka Wrote: Yes ofcourse he'd do that, what do most animals do when you corner them? They fight back.   He was a completely new person to the site and just wanted to have fun and I think(don't remember for 100%) he even mentioned in the presser that he'd like to not make it political and doesn't want to talk about the name. You're all grown ass people, just act like it and show some respect to each other, even if you wouldn't like what that (in this instance the name) represents.
I'm sure everyone does it at work, instead of making snarky remarks about something in their past, so why is it so hard here?

How do you think it looks to new users when someone new makes a media post and has all these coloured names jump them and pressing them?

Believe me, I would love to be able to just opt out of politics and have a good time without regards to it, but I will never be able to do that because of my identity. Ergo I try to stand up for others in the same boat. It might just be a name to him, but it’s not just that to other people.

but that’s not the main discussion point here, just needed to get that out of the way

I mean, sure, I understand if you are politically outspoken you want to chime in, but I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact that nothing ever gets accomplished by attacking people for their political views on the internet, at best they dig in further. I guess you can sleep better knowing you “really showed that guy” ?

And this approach of “educating” people? How far up on your high horse do you have to be to have that take?

Way too often people spend way too much energy trying to change someone/something that is an immovable object.

But hey, what do I know.