Dude, I am zen. No adrenaline here. Boredom, maybe. Sighs, surely. Don't be projecting emotional states on to me that seem to be emanating from your own texts. Just saying.
One could start a thread on democracy and people might talk about Athens and Tom Paine and the French Revolution and is it even possible, etc.? It's unlikely that anyone will react to it by saying: "Obama, Bush and Hitler were all elected! Is that what you support, when you speak of democracy?!"
One can't do that with feminism. The reactions are going to be a lot more ooga-ooga. People have been primed to hate. There isn't going to be a discussion of the sufragettes or Betty Friedan or Emma Goldman or Carol Gilligan or Silvia Federici or something. Automatically, some troll (a function, not an identity) is going to come in and demand to talk about Madeline Albright, Margaret Thatcher and Condoleezza Rice. Because feminism, Laura Bush said that's why Afghanistan was invaded. Feminism, it's a murder ideology of the New World Order invented by Rockefeller to destroy the family and split the people so that the elites can more easily rule them. This is of course pretty much the right-wing pavlovian response to feminism. Sorry if that's so, but we don't live in a vacuum. It's a daily thing, it can be observed. (Labels are neither destinies nor magic spells; they're often just words and the question should be whether they accurately describe something.) Someone says women's rights, and some reactionary is right away going to start screaming about Hillary Clinton. This is what your Newquist did.
And is this your idea of how to start a dialogue with me?
Which, of course, if you go back, this
a) was not in the least the case (I didn't even talk about "identity politics," whatever that is -- a conservative's pejorative label for not taking white econo-normative American men as the norm, basically) -- and,
b) was even shorter than what he said.
But a troll knows which phrases to employ -- long-winded! diatribe! capitalized Identity Politics -- which words have been loaded and weaponized a certain way, so as to preclude response (like "conspiracy theory," the famous example around here).
So, as I said to Newquist at that point, having some self-respect: Fuck you. (This is sure to be quoted in other threads as evidence of how mean I am, naturally without the context.)
To you, however, I also say: You may try again. You can decide whether you want to have a dialogue or start your posts directly by reviving six-month-old attacks on me and talking about how deep and true they are. Or if you find something of value in Newquist, you could repost that without including the "Fuck JackRiddler and his commie ideology" bit at the start.
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