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This is sad, but not surprising. I would even feel a little better if there was a warrant.
by thescribe 10y ago
This is sad, but not surprising. I would even feel a little better if there was a warrant.
- rhizome 10y agoAs a side point, "not surprising," "I don't know why anybody's shocked by this" and related reactions are how apathetic people help normalize bad behavior. It's the cutting-edge of acceptance for early observers to assert that they're already jaded and besides that what's taking everybody else so long? If you don't like it, the key is to remain surprised that it's continuing. Backbiting on those who do is the exact wrong thing to do, and essentially works to turn change agents against each other. Call it political hipsterism.
- justin66 10y agoYou might be overreacting a bit to the comment you're replying to. The way you quoted something he didn't say next to something he did say is uncharitable.
- rhizome 10y agoI was describing a class of responses of which the actual quote is only one. This seems evident by the grammar I chose, but maybe not?
- justin66 10y agoYou did a bit more than that, and there was nothing unclear about your grammar.
- rhizome 10y agoOf course I did more than that. Are you trying to say you didn't like my point?
- justin66 10y agoA person who says such a thing is "not surprising" could mean many things, and they're not necessarily trying to normalize bad behavior. A person who says "I don't know why anybody's shocked by this," the statement you made up, had gone a lot further down the road of normalization. It would have been less douchey to feel out the person you were responding to as to what they meant, rather than simply assigning them to a category.