Westie;8411975 said:
The Lonious Monk;8411949 said:
Westie;8411767 said:
everything you say is inflammatory. what did @obnoxiouslyfresh say that equates to throwing tantrums? and you want to act like you're not trying to be contrary just for contrarians sake. ok boo.
Where did I say that @obnoxiouslyfresh specifically was throwing tantrums? I was talking about the general reaction to my comment. However, bringing my family into the mix and saying I have a wounded soul and all that stuff was a ridiculous reaction to what I said. It's all been, with the exception of a few people, over the top. Nothing I said was particularly inflammatory. It's not like I said the racist comments were right or justified. I said they weren't as big a deal as people are making and that similar offensive actions are done here. And that shit blew up. Ya'll talking to me like I had to know that was going to happen. lol No, I didn't because to me my comments were obvious and mundane. I didn't expect people to like them, but I also didn't expect people to act like me making them was the seventh sign of the black apocalypse.
Sorry, but nobody is being contrary just to be contrary. I don't know why some of you find it so hard to understand that everyone doesn't think the same way you think. People do have legitimately different views. You think it's ridiculous that I didn't rage over this shit. Ok, fine. I think it's ridiculous that you rage over shit like this and don't give a fuck about other more substantial stuff like the education funds discrepancy in the topic I posted a couple days ago. I would expect that a state government systematically shitting on thousands of black boys and girls would cause way more ire than a few racists making fun of one black boy, but it didn't. Am I calling people names because their priorities aren't mine? No, I just accepted it and moved on.
Bro, there isn't steam coming out my ears here. You're imagining outrage. People pointing out that your pov is misguided isn't them having a temper tantrum or furiously typing at their keybords.
Also, how are you trying to dictate peoples reactions? This isn't important enough to you? That's ok, but some of us see that little black boys being treated like they're les than human turns into worse things.
People's prejudices follow them into the workplace, so when they see a young black boy killed unjustly by an officer with a similar mindset, it's less disturbing than watching a dog die, because he wasn't human to them to begin with. As a parent, if that's no big deal to you, I find that disturbing, but trust me, I'm not enraged. I will point it out to you though.
Stop imagining people with pitchforks dude, you're having delusions of grandeur.
@Westie, seriously people say I like arguing for the sake of arguing, but I think that's really you. I've pointed out throughout this topic that you were one of the reasonable ones and that your disagreement with me was fine, so why aren't you pointing out your feelings.
You didn't come in here calling me a coon. Others did, and that's who I was referring too. You can understand the ridiculousness of people calling you a slut in the other topic because they didn't agree, but can't see how the name calling is just as ridiculous here? Come on.
And that little boy wasn't treated like anything. He was talked about on the net. He probably doesn't even know what happened. No harm was done to him. Racists made fun of him, the same way they probably make fun of him and all of us everyday. No that's not that big a deal, especially when there are incidents of real harm being done to black children.
Yes, it's crazy that white people feel the way they do about us. But we already know they do and there isn't much we can to change that. So why get so upset about it?
And lol @ delusions of grandeur. There is nothing special about what has happened here, so why would I feel grand about the part I played in it? But the topic has gone on as long as it has because at least half a dozen people have been coming at my throat over what I said. It doesn't make me some kind of narcissist to acknowledge that. Hell, I got mention notifications from other topics because people went in other topics talking shit about what I said in here.
