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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I was explaining how and why one phrase may garner a negative reaction and assumption from some people which you continued to question, so I did my best to elaborate. And suggested another phrase that might express what you really mean better if you want to avoid having that reaction/assumption. It’s up to you if you take it, it seemed you wanted to understand but got hung up on semantics of its all politics. I really didn’t believe you don’t actually care about any politics or that if you were aware of what’s going on with why people hate tankies you would not find it important and shitty. So yeah I just tried my best but maybe as long as things don’t directly impact you then it isn’t worth thinking about or learning about?

    I never attacked you and there was no veiled attempt or anything it all came from a place of compassion and you kept responding like you didn’t understand so I did my best to explain the same point a different way while trying to address what you seemed confused about. I guess I see now you were just arguing with me. Idk maybe you are just a dick that doesn’t care about other people if you don’t know them. I can see now maybe your replies were arguments not a conversation.



  • Me either. In fact I would be pretty confused and angry if I was having a conversation about how much it sucks and then someone chimed in that they don’t care about politics. Confused and angry because don’t they know people who this hurts? Realize that it’s hurting children? AFAB who endured SA, including children??? Etc.

    Now if someone said I don’t pay attention to politics so I wasn’t aware of it and I’m not aware of any nuance of why it’s bad, that’s more understandable. Ignorance vs potential lack of empathy. That’s the difference between the two phrases and if you do care about some of these issues that happen to be political crosshairs rn, maybe now you can understand how that statement can be interpreted different ways based on context of the conversation and why you might want to adjust your phrasing if that is not the message you intended.

    Does it make sense now?