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It's not enough to just avoid the topic - I've had someone go off on a two minute talking-over-me rant about how I really ought to have an opinion on that sort

It's not enough to just avoid the topic - I've had someone go off on a two minute talking-over-me rant about how I really ought to have an opinion on that sort of thing.

nickpsecurity 10y ago
After Ferguson, a young, white guy at a store... extremely nice & harmless guy... in our locale was all shook up. Barely speaking to people under his breath. I asked him why. He said he was delivering a speech in a college class on something peripherally related. Some black student shouted a Ferguson connection. He tried to dismiss it in what came off to me as neutral just moving on with his assignment. Argument ensued with the entire class (mostly black) screaming at him until he sat down. Then they treated him like shit afterwards for the next few days. He figured he might have said or done something wrong. I tried to calm him down explaining that they simply don't allow whites to have opinions on topics like this. They become a mob that can gets louder, angrier, and more dangerous as you resist. Mob-behavior is irrational and dangerous in all races. Best just to avoid talking to them until they calm down. They got along better a while after since they just wrote it off as white ignorance that they put in its place far as I can tell. That's how they describe those moments to me in the past. I told him the real problem was that they ganged up on his ass to intimidate him into silence. We can't get any consensus or improvements if either side uses tactics like that. They all need to knock it off.
- jrnichols 10y ago
  This sounds a lot like trying to discuss things with modern feminists.
- eschaton 10y ago
  Interesting that you don't say what exactly it was that he said to which someone made a "Ferguson connection."
  - nickpsecurity 10y ago
    It was so mundane I dont even remember it. He just disagreed with a blind, talking point they got from social media. All it took. He's white so not allowed to disagree. They slammed his ass. I saw same pattern on many online discussions at the time. Heabily polarized with info on each side from biased sources. Any opposing comment, small or large, got same effect of dismissal and/or attacks by large number of people. In this case, there were many of them and one of him. And he probably looked really nervous after initial exchange. Often creates a Pirhana-like effect where whole group jumps in.

It's not enough to just avoid the topic - I've had someone go off on a two minute talking-over-me rant about how I really ought to have an opinion on that sort of thing.

nickpsecurity 10y ago

After Ferguson, a young, white guy at a store... extremely nice & harmless guy... in our locale was all shook up. Barely speaking to people under his breath. I asked him why. He said he was delivering a speech in a college class on something peripherally related. Some black student shouted a Ferguson connection. He tried to dismiss it in what came off to me as neutral just moving on with his assignment. Argument ensued with the entire class (mostly black) screaming at him until he sat down. Then they treated him like shit afterwards for the next few days. He figured he might have said or done something wrong. I tried to calm him down explaining that they simply don't allow whites to have opinions on topics like this. They become a mob that can gets louder, angrier, and more dangerous as you resist. Mob-behavior is irrational and dangerous in all races. Best just to avoid talking to them until they calm down. They got along better a while after since they just wrote it off as white ignorance that they put in its place far as I can tell. That's how they describe those moments to me in the past. I told him the real problem was that they ganged up on his ass to intimidate him into silence. We can't get any consensus or improvements if either side uses tactics like that. They all need to knock it off.

jrnichols 10y ago
This sounds a lot like trying to discuss things with modern feminists.
eschaton 10y ago
Interesting that you don't say what exactly it was that he said to which someone made a "Ferguson connection."
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  It was so mundane I dont even remember it. He just disagreed with a blind, talking point they got from social media. All it took. He's white so not allowed to disagree. They slammed his ass. I saw same pattern on many online discussions at the time. Heabily polarized with info on each side from biased sources. Any opposing comment, small or large, got same effect of dismissal and/or attacks by large number of people. In this case, there were many of them and one of him. And he probably looked really nervous after initial exchange. Often creates a Pirhana-like effect where whole group jumps in.