Eve Moran
Eve Moran
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read

“I use the word segregationist to people who advance segregationist ideas. Again “do not wear it if u r not chinese” is saying exactly that.

As I said at the beginning, you are defending segregationist views that peoples choice of clothing should be limited by their skin color. That is what you have done from the moment you claimed “Eh, I can see both sides” to the question of whether Daum was bullied.”

Thank you for clarifying that I have not actually advanced any segregationist ideas in any of my posts when you choose to call me a “segregationist”. You could find no examples of segregationist ideas in any of my posts.

You earlier defined segregationist ideas:

“It is segregationist to tell people what clothes they can wear because of their skin color, ethnicity, religion or gender.”

I asked you to quote parts of my post where I espoused segregationist ideas, because I don’t want to be espousing them. This is what a person does when they are making a good faith effort at communication. I took your feedback with a request for specific examples that I could edit or remove in my work.

I am modeling this behavior for you, so that you might try speaking to other human beings in the future instead of just calling them names and imagining increasingly nasty ways of misrepresenting the things that are said to you. That’s the difference between discourse and harassment.

I’m actually interested in observing these differences, because in theory we could use the internet as citizens to engage in discourse with each other, wrestling with the nature of reality collectively.

What happens more often is that people engage in ritualistic exchanges of content that isn’t even designed with the other person in mind: it’s less a conversation and more a call and response, like you would find in church or theater. It’s not an exchange of ideas as much as it is a reaffirmation of which side you are on.

That would be what you are doing here. Why are you doing that?

What are you trying to accomplish by waging war on the concept of cultural appropriation? I see nothing innately wrong with discussing the feeling you get when someone does something you don’t like with something that is deeply meaningful to you.

Talking about that emotional response is not the same as punishing the person who prompted the response. You seem to see no difference between those two things. Just having the opinion is equivalent to bullying and segregation, is the impression I get from your writing.

Is that the impression you want to give? Or would you now like to clarify your ideas?

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    A Texan living in California. 2 kids, 2 cats, 4 chickens and a strong suspicion that most people are good.