What I feel is sad, because what is getting thrown at me at this point is the same shit that my ancestors (them, not me), threw at others.
Admittedly, I don't know exactly what your ancestors did or did not do (neither, for that matter, do you), but you are nevertheless comparing your treatment in this discussion to racist behavior of the past. Which is an incredibly provocative statement even referring only to the most minor incidents that black, Indian, Asian descent, and immigrants both white and non-white have had to deal with in the last half of the last century. And dude, you didn't specify that far, so yes, whatever you were thinking in your head, your actual words implicitly compared your treatment in a mildly heated internet discussion to the victims of hate crimes.
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carisma_sensei
Re: Clarification
Date: 2007-03-24 08:54 pm (UTC)What I feel is sad, because what is getting thrown at me at this point is the same shit that my ancestors (them, not me), threw at others.
Admittedly, I don't know exactly what your ancestors did or did not do (neither, for that matter, do you), but you are nevertheless comparing your treatment in this discussion to racist behavior of the past. Which is an incredibly provocative statement even referring only to the most minor incidents that black, Indian, Asian descent, and immigrants both white and non-white have had to deal with in the last half of the last century. And dude, you didn't specify that far, so yes, whatever you were thinking in your head, your actual words implicitly compared your treatment in a mildly heated internet discussion to the victims of hate crimes.
I'm not pissed off so much as dumbfounded.