jerseyhoya wrote:td11 wrote:jerseyhoya wrote:td11 wrote:i was not "going on" and i also was not showing "rage" (which, by the way, is akin to telling someone to "calm down" during a serious argument, pretty condescending). my posts were set off by jerz posting "faux outrage on faux outrage." i have since said that Suey Park seems nuts but that the original tweet was still a bad idea and offensive out of context.
sorry for using the word i used earlier today. other people have used it recently and not in an obviously sarcastic way.
Except I didn't say that but whateverjerseyhoya wrote:The #cancelcolbert thing really is the worst of social media. Outrage and faux outrage and outrage and faux outrage about the outrage and faux outrage.
Right, outrage and faux outrage. Because some people were actually offended and others were doing the stomping feet on the internet pretending to be upset just to get attention thing. And that people took offense to me saying that is crazy.
OK. not trying to be the PC police here but "crazy" and other variations are demeaning to the mentally ill.
). Not to mention I don't ever use it to actually attack people or denigrate mentally challenged people. 