This has made me do a think
LB: this is a more eloquent sum up of what I've been trying to tell dipshits for ages about why being an asshole in *some* contexts ruin 'civility' in other contexts
and why it's important to learn to apologize for being an ass accidentally and such
IME, the people who say things like "gee when could people be friends despite politics" are often the people making "bold statements" about shit in the least sensitive and least diplomatic fashion possible
it's as if only their feelings matter
"well, I feel my discussions of the use of [SLUR] don't reflect on my feelings on actual reality"
"well some people may disagree with that, for example it kind of sounds [X-ist], really"
"DID YOU JUST CALL ME [X-ist]?!! YOU'RE BEING NEEDLESSLY HOSTILE, [SLUR]!"
of course it's other people's issue, clearly, my mistake 🙄 you are obviously the grand communicator of humanity
@caraellison Ah, the mission of ED.
@caraellison slightly dangerous take imo:
1. To some people the way this is phrased implicitly implies that political correctness is just denying civility, when it is also about racism
2. I don’t want to be civil these days, even though I have high democratic ideals. Civility is for peaceful times, not for periods of crisis. Martin Luther King called civility negative peace, inaction in the presence of injustice. It’s wrong.
@caraellison 🤯