Red Mosquito

malice wrote:amazing how not every fucking article on the internet that talks about #CancelColbert doesn't include mention of Ms Park.

it must be a conspiracy of the white racist agenda. because she is so obviously the only person worth listening to from your perspective. which, ok, enjoy that perspective?

fuck this. harmless, i love you but i'm so done talking to you anymore, i'm done reading your tweets, and i'm done trying to understand where you're really coming from, because as a white woman that is able bodied i obviously have no validity in your perspective and therefore am only talking to myself in anything of any value to you. my best wishes to you and whatever your future holds but i refuse to be ashamed and disrespected BY YOU anymore than you claim is being done TO you.

perhaps someday you'll find something to be happy with, i most certainly and sincerely hope so, but i never thought for one minute in the years you've posted here and that I've known you through your posts that this was something of such an offensive manner to you that you're willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater for the sake of your activist stance.
I do not disrespect your activism, i do however find your presentation and tenacity of how you interact based on that activism to be offensive TO ME, personally. and therefore have nothing else worth talking about with you.

best of life to you. i fear you're more reminiscent of little wing than yourself anymore and for that i truly mourn. should you ever decide to take into account points of view that differ from yours, please do let me know, otherwise.... i'm not going to be a party to this, whatever the hell it is, anymore.

harmless wrote:In all seriousness, though, it would take a single 'bullet point' to say "Suey Park's hashtag distracted the world from the Redskins issue, and this is a problem." But the article doesn't even say that; it bangs on about how the 'anti-Liberal Left' (of which I guess you'd call me one) is a problem for politics because of regular dissent. The dissent, funnily enough (unless I didn't get some other memo), comes from various minorities that cause a stir for upsetting the apple cart once in a while when some mainstream media source says something insulting about their people group. But we highlight the 'fact' that the 'anti-Liberal Left' is a huge problem for the Left, instead of trying to see why various minorities might have a problem with the Liberal stance? Why? I mean, I have my ideas. But primarily, what I've learned in all this is that as one of the 'anti-Liberal Left', if I ever have a complaint to make regarding ableism (prejudice towards disabled people) displayed by anything on the TV or in the mainstream media, I probably shouldn't bother bringing it here as a concern.

malice wrote:amazing how not every fucking article on the internet that talks about #CancelColbert doesn't include mention of Ms Park.

it must be a conspiracy of the white racist agenda. because she is so obviously the only person worth listening to from your perspective. which, ok, enjoy that perspective?

fuck this. harmless, i love you but i'm so done talking to you anymore, i'm done reading your tweets, and i'm done trying to understand where you're really coming from, because as a white woman that is able bodied i obviously have no validity in your perspective and therefore am only talking to myself in anything of any value to you. my best wishes to you and whatever your future holds but i refuse to be ashamed and disrespected BY YOU anymore than you claim is being done TO you.

perhaps someday you'll find something to be happy with, i most certainly and sincerely hope so, but i never thought for one minute in the years you've posted here and that I've known you through your posts that this was something of such an offensive manner to you that you're willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater for the sake of your activist stance.
I do not disrespect your activism, i do however find your presentation and tenacity of how you interact based on that activism to be offensive TO ME, personally. and therefore have nothing else worth talking about with you.

best of life to you. i fear you're more reminiscent of little wing than yourself anymore and for that i truly mourn. should you ever decide to take into account points of view that differ from yours, please do let me know, otherwise.... i'm not going to be a party to this, whatever the hell it is, anymore.

harmless wrote: You still can't just understand why I'm pissed off, can you?

theplatypus wrote:In general, I am interested in anything that can help me be a better ally, but I am struggling to see past the reductiveness of Suey Park's arguments*

theplatypus wrote:Someone explained it to me as wanting to call out the arrogance of white liberals being okay with insulting one race to defend another. Like white liberals are fine with Asian Americans being collateral damage, only because it's in the name of satire, and that evinces privilege and a built-in systemic racism. While I disagree with that notion, I found that framing helpful to understand what exactly the hashtaggers were mad about.

malice wrote:also, i will be hugely disappointed in stephen colbert if he learns to be more careful with his words.

BurtReynolds wrote:This idea that I, as The Glorious White Liberal, must, voluntarily and for the good of the poor innocent "noble savages" of the world, suppress freedom of speech and make some hopelessly assbackward attempt to rig a rigged system for their benefit, is the height of destructive, condescending ignorance (regardless of which group(s) originated this idea), and fairly typical of the left. Its not taking prejudice and inequality out of the system, its piling more prejudice and inequality on to it, and creating more divisions and anger in the process.

I'm not about to "ally" with this group or that. I am going to act by a moral code of maximum freedom, agency, and justice for ALL people. This has been proven to work, and IS working (though for some reason one always has to add "but there is still a long way to go!" as if everyone already doesn't know it.) In comparison, this supposed intersectional divisiveness, and its related past ineffective extremist ideologies, can show little in the way of improvement at all. This particular iteration apparently doesn't even have a goal anymore other than to provide a support group for fatalists.