Polyspora wrote:
Nah what am I even saying, poly is an out of control lunatic
You’re wrong! There was 100% reasons for locking that thread and you’re a bigot for not seeing it, be better
im also interested by multiple parts of this
its kind of like me (i have a habit of rhetorically self-victimizing) but more ambiguous, the way youve often hyperbolized and exaggerated what you interpret for illustrative effect, somewhere between sarcasm/irony/joking and something more sincere
like, i dont think it's likely anyone would believe you to be out of control or a lunatic. i don't think you're even remotely stupid for not seeing/valuing something through an entirely different person's perspective and therefore finding reason to lock a thread for the contents or consequential implications of something said within it
sometimes we (rhetorically) genuinely dont see how anyone would reasonably believe something to be concerning at all. sometimes we do
i dont know whether its more likely youre joking, i often interpret an air of "dont take it seriously" but then have a hard time telling if youre making a point or if youre genuinely self-consciously weary/frustrated instead (or both)
at the moment, the potential point seems to amount to "its ridiculous that im seen as any kind of ignorant bigot for believing this thread was fine, that stigma is stupid" with a possible addition of "their mysterious reasons arent mysterious at all-- theyre empty, and probably just a result of bias", where the exaggerative self-disparagement is a rhetorically-helpful mischaracterization based on a buildup of similarly-internalized comments by other people on similar subjects, in order to highlight the presumable ridiculousness of it ("be better" is also a bit of a commonly cited phrase that probably rhetorically represents a certain type of unhelpfully trite critique)