OTOH, I used to more or less do just that (criticizing their views without name calling, etc) in a very civil and p.c. way even. But I was still called Nazi / racist / transphobe over stupid shit like only expressing the view that affirmative-action and “promoting minorities first” doesn’t help minorities in the long term as it isn’t merit-based and both encourages the view that they can’t perform equally without help and adding resentment for “stealing” a merit-based spot… both of which further increases the divide.
Similar results when pointing out to reddit mods that they could just have a sticky thread or sister sub for rainbow folks instead of changing banner for pride month. Even leaving pride month aside, there were non-lgbt subs that keep rainbow banner around for long periods outside of pride month to “punish bigots” and other stupid shit but also confused new users who started thinking the non-lgbt sub was about lgbt even though it was just woke mods on a power trip.
You know why nobody gives a shit that some people have brown eyes vs green eyes so on or moles on their neck, etc? Cuz they’re so unremarkable. If people want racism to end, then they need to quit talking about race. They want to help poor blacks? Do something that helps ALL poor people and it will still help poor blacks.
At this point, I’m of the mind they gonna hate you no matter what unless you agreeing with them. If you can do it without name calling, then I respect you. But I don’t think they’ll hate me a whole lot more than they already do lol.
Fair point of view I guess.
OTOH, I used to more or less do just that (criticizing their views without name calling, etc) in a very civil and p.c. way even. But I was still called Nazi / racist / transphobe over stupid shit like only expressing the view that affirmative-action and “promoting minorities first” doesn’t help minorities in the long term as it isn’t merit-based and both encourages the view that they can’t perform equally without help and adding resentment for “stealing” a merit-based spot… both of which further increases the divide.
Similar results when pointing out to reddit mods that they could just have a sticky thread or sister sub for rainbow folks instead of changing banner for pride month. Even leaving pride month aside, there were non-lgbt subs that keep rainbow banner around for long periods outside of pride month to “punish bigots” and other stupid shit but also confused new users who started thinking the non-lgbt sub was about lgbt even though it was just woke mods on a power trip.
You know why nobody gives a shit that some people have brown eyes vs green eyes so on or moles on their neck, etc? Cuz they’re so unremarkable. If people want racism to end, then they need to quit talking about race. They want to help poor blacks? Do something that helps ALL poor people and it will still help poor blacks.
At this point, I’m of the mind they gonna hate you no matter what unless you agreeing with them. If you can do it without name calling, then I respect you. But I don’t think they’ll hate me a whole lot more than they already do lol.