sciatrix

...welp, that was a scary thread. Things like that are why I've never tried to join MetaFilter even though it's occasionally interesting. I see that discussion as being very similar to some of my ultra-left college acquaintances, the ones who think that anyone who disagrees with them on any point no matter how small or how nuanced is just as bad as the Republicans. You're never going to convince people like that; they're too bound up in needing to be the Most Oppressed to engage in good faith-- it's like they think if they acknowledge that they're capable of hurting people it invalidates their own pain. I spent a while seeking approval of people like that and then a while longer bashing my head against their walls, and now... I'm not sure there *is* an answer, except keep forming our own spaces where all of us who fall into "other" can hide out, because they're always so determined that they are Right and True and therefore anyone who disagrees is The Enemy. It's a very black-and-white worldview and those of us on the outside are all nuance.