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Excuse me but I don't feel I can be a courageous and outspoken ally while remaining silent on this issue, so this is just a polite lesson since you appear to ha
by starspangled 2y ago
Excuse me but I don't feel I can be a courageous and outspoken ally while remaining silent on this issue, so this is just a polite lesson since you appear to have some internalized ignorance. Using the term "shoot" as an exclamation is very insensitive and triggering particularly to people of color and refugees. I'm almost certain this was not intentional on your part, so in future be better, like me.
The morally virtuous new term that the experts have decided is the correct replacement is "golly gee willikers". Please use it.
- hungie 2y agoI know plenty of folks who do object to the use of shoot in this way. And, in their company, I do try to avoid it. Your suggestion suggests you are not discussing in good faith.
- starspangled 2y ago> I know plenty of folks who do object to the use of shoot in this way. And, in their company, I do try to avoid it. And yet you used it anyway, a microaggression which betrays your privilege. Be kind. Above all, be kind. > Your suggestion suggests you are not discussing in good faith. Too fucking hard to remember the current term, is it? Seems like you don't handle being corrected very well.
- hungie 2y agoI'm sorry someone hurt you. And I'm sorry you think I am the same as whoever they are. I think your anger is aimed at the wrong person, but I hope you are able to introspect and examine these feelings and find peace in the future.
- starspangled 2y agoYou simply can't cope with taking my correction without making a fuss. Which is very ironic.
- hungie 2y agoI assure you I'm not making a fuss. I'm genuinely sorry that you've encountered people who were so strong in their insistence that they left you responding so emotionally to someone on an internet forum.
- starspangled 2y agoAssurances mean nothing next to actions.
- hungie 2y agoTrue. My actions here are extending empathy towards you, and to consistently express that the empathy is genuine. Responding as strongly and as angrily as you have suggests that someone in your past was needlessly rude or over correcting, and it's made you put up some walls.
- starspangled 2y agoYour assertions are unfounded and not based on the evidence we have.