Oh no! You mean some of the 1300 people who mindlessly upvoted this meme, displaying a complete lack of understanding of the situation in Syria that it was talking about, don’t respect me? How can I live with myself?
I try to hold people to a higher standard of discourse, because I want to have intelligent, informed discussions. When people demonstrate that they’re either incapable or unwilling to meet that standard, then what’s the point of being nice and polite to them?
The reason I’m here, instead of just surrounding myself in a circlejerk of people who already agree with me, is that I want my views to be challenged. But my views are not challenged by meme-level takes and soundbites and knee-jerk responses with no interest in actually understanding the subject being discussed. Provide me with an actual challenge, and you’ll find me to be the picture of civility. The problem is, no one can.
I’ll own up to one thing, which is that I singled you out coming from a place of already being frustrated with the community for upvoting this garbage. The reason that that’s so frustrating to me is that I consider it a moral obligation to take the time to understand a country’s situation before supporting intervention in it (including sanctions). Failure to do so is the cause of a massive amount of pointless suffering in the world. But perhaps that frustration should have been directed more generally at the community.
If there was some kind of other interpretation to your comment than that you had replied thinking that this had something to do with the Qatar plane situation, then I apologize, but I still have no earthly idea what that alternate explanation is.
No, it’d be innocent Syrian people who would be doing the crying, if the sanctions were pointlessly prolonged, which 1400 people just mindlessly signed off on with zero understanding of their situation. Something that you mysteriously don’t seem to mind at all.
All I’m doing is fulfilling my moral duty as a citizen of the empire by calling y’all out on it.
Oh no! You mean some of the 1300 people who mindlessly upvoted this meme, displaying a complete lack of understanding of the situation in Syria that it was talking about, don’t respect me? How can I live with myself?
I try to hold people to a higher standard of discourse, because I want to have intelligent, informed discussions. When people demonstrate that they’re either incapable or unwilling to meet that standard, then what’s the point of being nice and polite to them?
The reason I’m here, instead of just surrounding myself in a circlejerk of people who already agree with me, is that I want my views to be challenged. But my views are not challenged by meme-level takes and soundbites and knee-jerk responses with no interest in actually understanding the subject being discussed. Provide me with an actual challenge, and you’ll find me to be the picture of civility. The problem is, no one can.
I’ll own up to one thing, which is that I singled you out coming from a place of already being frustrated with the community for upvoting this garbage. The reason that that’s so frustrating to me is that I consider it a moral obligation to take the time to understand a country’s situation before supporting intervention in it (including sanctions). Failure to do so is the cause of a massive amount of pointless suffering in the world. But perhaps that frustration should have been directed more generally at the community.
If there was some kind of other interpretation to your comment than that you had replied thinking that this had something to do with the Qatar plane situation, then I apologize, but I still have no earthly idea what that alternate explanation is.
Cry harder
No, it’d be innocent Syrian people who would be doing the crying, if the sanctions were pointlessly prolonged, which 1400 people just mindlessly signed off on with zero understanding of their situation. Something that you mysteriously don’t seem to mind at all.
All I’m doing is fulfilling my moral duty as a citizen of the empire by calling y’all out on it.