Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"So, @sama wrote this piece where he says that 'we' should be entitled to say dumb shit because things that start as dumb shit may lead to good shit.

"I need people to understand this about minorities. Please. If you're from a historically oppressed group then...by survival...you've become extremely adept at detecting good faith arguments and bad faith arguments.

"I can tell you that black people and black families have been disagreeing with each other since Mansa Musa. In fact, I'd be willing to suggest that black people are the only people that constantly have intense, existential sociological arguments amongst themselves. What @sama is missing is that what he refers to as 'PC culture' is mainly people quickly nipping dangerous buds that have always grown into large problems.

"Here's an illustration: I know one black lawyer who got asked to remove a Malcolm X quote from their office's wall. But, this is not what Sam would couch as PC culture. By his own blog post, Sam would say restricting the ability to 'debate' the mental inferiority of blacks is PC culture.

"The one thing I hate about education is that it gives really, really wrong people, who are operating in bad faith, a 'smart sounding' accent that makes all of their sleights harder to catch.

"1. I do not know a single 'PC person' who wants to ban 'wacky' ideas. 2. 'Gay people are evil' is not a controversial idea. There is literally no controversy, no more than me saying I should be able to kill a person a day is 'controversial.' A brave person would say this idea is wrong and it has no home here. @sama is not a brave man.

"That's the thing that gets me. People are constantly trying to gaslight us with bad faith arguments and it is extremely transparent.

"Last point, my existential dread kicks in when I realize the far right, the far left, the terrifyingly wealthy, and the tech bros of San Fran are probably four years away from finding a point of unification and that behemoth's blind spots will do us all in."

-- KYLE A.B., 2017-12-15 (tweet thread ... excerpt of the piece the author is reacting to is attached as photo to first tweet)

Apparently I am having a bad brain day today. Ninety minutes from entering the kitchen to finally managing to decide what to eat, is a bad sign. (I did eventually eat something. But this doesn't bode well for other things I need to do.) Either the cognitive effects associated with fibro are biting really hard today, or I'm scared of something and hiding it from myself (which kinda gets in the way of confronting whatever and working past it). *sigh*