because underseer treats the media and pop culture forum the same way derec treats the political forum - it's a soap box for him to scream his utterly batshit insane delusions about the world and other people, and not a single person who reads these threads agrees with a single word he's saying and sooner or later gets fed up with it.
I just blocked him. He's not worth taking seriously. What does bother me though is that the mods allow it to continue. I have complained and cited posts where he's called me and other bigots, white supremacists, and hurled other personal insults, all of which is clearly against the forum's rules.
In the politics forum, I kind of lost it a few weeks back and went off on another poster. I received a warning for it, which was fair. I'd crossed the line. And it made me more mindful of how I respond to other posters. Unfortunately, Underseer isn't held to the same standard, and I don't know why.
What a special princess snowflake. Confronted with complaints about racism and misogyny, of course, your reaction is to get triggered and immediately retreat to a safe space by blocking me.
We have actual fascists and white supremacists in this forum community, one of whom even uses a fasces as his avatar, but it's curious that they didn't trigger you and hurt your feelings and cause you to retreat behind a safe space by blocking them. Golly, I wonder why actual white supremacists didn't offend you and hurt your feelings, but someone complaining about them did. Oh well, I guess we'll never figure it out.
Yeah, I know he blocked me, and I know he'll never read this, and yes, this is obviously for the benefit of whatever other fragile white people are reading this.
The fact that we have actual neo-fascist/white supremacists posting here and people complain more about what I have to say than what they have to say should be illuminating, but of course, it doesn't. No one wants to stop and consider what that difference in reactions says about
them, so it's easier to complain about the person who keeps talking about the very racism and misogyny that drives the difference in their responses.
We elected a white supremacist president.
He got elected not in spite of his racist statements, but
because of his wildly racist statements.
We have had a large increase in racist violence since the white supremacist got in the White House.
I am frankly fucking
done with dancing around white fragility. I get that many if not most of you are more offended by people talking about racism than the racism itself. I get that most of you are more offended by people talking about misogyny than the misogyny itself. I get it because I'm half white and often feel those things also, but unlike you, I stopped and thought about
why this difference of responses exists.
Most of you don't stop and think about
why you're more upset about discussions of racism than the racism itself because you don't
have to. It doesn't hurt you personally, and in many ways, you benefit from it, so why bother doing anything about it? If you benefit from it, then it is perfectly reasonable to get angry at people who complain about because if society acknowledges that it is wrong and tries to discuss the details of what is wrong, you might lose your unfair advantage.
I'm not saying you're doing this consciously, but that's the essence of cognitive biases (in this case self-serving bias), isn't it? You're not aware that you're doing it or that it is influencing your decisions and responses.
Again, I
get that because of white fragility, I've hurt your feelings, but given that America is sliding into fascism and we can't explain to half of the fucking country why fucking toddler concentration camps are a bad thing, I am fucking
done with dancing around everyone's white fragility.
Fuck
your
delicate
princess
fucking
snowflake
fragile
fucking
feelings.
People are dying because of your delicate fucking feelings and your reticence to so much as discuss glaring injustices that exist in society.
