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Way to have a holier-than-though attitude right off the bat. "Oh, look at me, I am so misunderstood for having OPINIONS" Your opinions are that it's OK to casu
by tangled_zans 11y ago
Way to have a holier-than-though attitude right off the bat. "Oh, look at me, I am so misunderstood for having OPINIONS"
Your opinions are that it's OK to casually look down on people for having political views. I think that's a legit reason for someone to think that your opinions are full of it and are worth downvoting.
- ap22213 11y agoActually, I just meant that opinions in general are not tolerated anymore (not only mine). Look, you have to understand that I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Having an opinion and expressing it was a big thing, back then. But, these days, it's all about conformity (or seems so, to these eyes).
- derefr 11y agoAs far as I can tell, these days it's about expressing your opinion in a very particular way that makes clear that you are not confusing your beliefs with facts, your preferences with "moral truths", etc. You know, "I statements" from therapy (http://www.austincc.edu/colangelo/1318/istatements.htm http://www.austincc.edu/colangelo/1318/istatements.htm). Anything asserted in a more-objective way than that (e.g. "you suck" rather than "I feel bad when you ...") is treated as incorrect, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of your viewpoint.
- tangled_zans 11y agoExpressing your opinions today is a pretty big thing too! For example, here's mine: In my opinion when some dude enters a conversation and calls a huge chunk of the people in it "intellectually lazy and weak", that dude is kind of an asshole, and probably thinks that he is way smarter than he actually is.