Yes, apathy. The thing you seem to see in others, but not in yourself.
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Sigh. You aren’t nearly as smart as you think you are. If you were you wouldn’t be talking nonsense.
Where did I say anything even close about apathy? Maybe English isnt your 1st language and you have terribly misunderstood something?
You posted a picture in another thread regarding the CSM election. Remember?
If I would have asked a question, it would have had a question mark at the end, not a dot.
The one you’re hearing all over your media and that’s engrained in your culture. Do you really believe you USA people have oh-so-many freedoms? That your free market is working perfectly? I don’t know if it’s the general lack of education, or that you guys over there are really just that blind and “patriotic”.
Freedom isn’t limited to the USA. Canada, Mexico, Italy, Germany, France, Norway, Sweden. Those are all free countries that in some ways actually have way more freedom than your “land of the free”. You’re not the greatest country in the world, either. You’re the world leaders in
- people with obesity
- incarcerated citizens
- people that believe angels are real
That’s it. In every other category, there’s another country that’s better than you and that includes freedom of speech. If we take the world press freedom index as basis for freedom of speech, then the USA isn’t ranking anywhere near the top. Which isn’t at all surprising really, in a country that’s constantly lying to itself just so it doesn’t have to face reality and don’t even get me started on your free market. Propaganda in the US is so blatant that I’m genuinely surprised nobody notices. Perhaps because it’s so ubiquitous, or perhaps you really deeply believe that you’re the greatest country in the world, treating every fact to the contrary as a personal attack.
Either way, you US Americans are comedy gold for the rest of the planet.
Ok. So what does that have to do with this discussion and how does that relate to anything I’ve said here? More to the point, why would you find it odd that a black person would post it?
In my 1st post in this thread I joked about it beinf salvoshed even without salvos, because salvos would do these kinds of odd derails. This is why I have public questionwd his mental health, because he’d stop.making sense but act like what he as saying was perfect reasonable.
You see awfully salvoshy to me…
Like I’ve said, when you don’t get it then don’t worry about it.
There is no need for you to go on the defense. It’s all good.
Thank you for revealing your rank prejudice about 320 million people in a place you have probably never been to. Your reply shows you are beneath both contempt and respect.
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Brick top loved pigs.
Freedom of speech…we need antoher world war, human race become soft. Did Canada passed the law that Jordan Peterson was against?
Not the human race, just the minority of it that lives in rich countries. There is an old saying “adversity makes men, prosperity makes monsters”. I think that is true and I think this thread helps prove it.
Since you’ve said you’re a descendant of slaves could we also bring back slavery so you can decide for yourself what it’s like by gaining first hand experience. Only this time you get to be one of the masters, just to give this a bit of a twist.
This thread delivers,why oh why I choose not to buy popcorn yesterday while in store,…
Mistakes were made.
Well if you want to put yourself in chains and give me all your money, I’m down with that.
I’m still not seeing what my ethnicity has to do with posting a hippie meme in another thread and why you would mention it here like it was somehow relevant to the discussion of your regions restrictive speech laws…
Is this what your ancestors did? They put themselves into chains?
I’m thinking you don’t know how slavery works.
Wtf is wrong with you?
No, what’s wrong with you?! Why are you so apathetic? You want to make it a point how you’re a descendant of slaves and here you are making a joke about how you’re down with somebody else being in chains.
Established facts aren’t prejudice.
But it’s funny you mention prejudice, seeing how you’re looking down on Europe:
as well as any other country that isn’t USA USA USA:
Showing off that typical US-American attitude the rest of the planet constantly mocks you for. Makes me wonder how you think about those evil pesky Russians. Let alone the Chinese.
Do tell, what’s your stance on both the free market and net neutrality? Which one do you prefer more? It’s an exclusive or choice, you can’t have both.
Since this thread went from a search&rescue mission to discussing discussion behaviour, I’ll use this opportunity to address the use of the word triggered.
In general medical terms trigger refers to an event or a number of specific circumstances that lead to a (positive or negative) result. In many cases a trigger is a necessary, albeit not always sufficient precondition of its sparked outcome.
When used in meta-discussions about arguments people have, it usually refers in one way or the other to the psychological trigger, which is a pretty specific thing and has not much to do with how people use it. A trigger in that sense could be any number of specific circumstances which could invoke a state of intrusion, which describes the involuntary reviving of a formerly experienced trauma. As such the trigger is not the trauma itself, but a link to the repressed memory of the personal hell someone went through.
Such a trigger, as I said, could be any number of circumstances and is usually very specific for each person. The assumption that words which name a part of the traumatic experience would automatically be a trigger is not correct. They can be, they can be part of it, but it can also be something completely different, a smell, a beard, a song in the radio. Again, a trigger in the psychological context means it will forcefully invoke a state of intrusion (as broadly explained above), not just a memory or something like that.
In simple terms: imagine someone beats you up. Two years later you talk about it randomly with a friend and remember the situation and yeah, not a nice memory. But it’s okay, you can deal with it. Now imagine, out of the blue a number of circumstances out of your control, that your brain is shortwired to, makes you relive the actual feeling of physical pain, emotional stress, fear of death and panic.
That’s what a trigger invokes.
There are two groups of people who have in the recent history used it wrongly: psychologically uninformed feminists and men who are driven by hate for women, the ones who dress their rape-fantasies in rape-jokes.
So unless you belong to either group I think it is better to refrain from using it like it is used here.
Most people here and elsewhere are perfectly capable of controlling their reactions to most circumstances, certainly most wordings if they so wish. If someone on the Forums jumps on you because they can’t accept what you said, they are not triggered, they chose to follow what may or may not be a provocation. “To feel provoked” would be way more accurate if it isn’t just purely a choice of taking part in a rumble of words in the first place.
If you ever actually happen to see someone being triggered, it’s certainly not a thing you should smirk about, but rather try helping the person or better yet get help.
The reason I make this effort here is simple: I really enjoy bare-knuckle discussions which get to the bottom of it all, but keeping respect for each other as humans, dignity and the benefit of the doubt are necessary preconditions to sometimes learn something new, sometimes teach others, sometimes enjoy the ramble without everything necessarily going down the rabbit hole of a neverending competition in riding the borderline of semi-covert shitprickingly comparing hateboners and a forum ban.
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