Posted: Apr 25, 2017 4:42 pm
Thomas Eshuis wrote:PensivePenny wrote:In the US, I'm not so sure about elsewhere, we have this epidemic of universities who are now required, mostly by students, to provide "safe spaces" from "microagression" and other "perceived threats." It is a sign that people have become overly sensitive to criticism or disagreement, "micro-agression". Now THAT is something that SHOULD make us ALL sad. I hope it never rises to that here.
If anything it's been going the other way with trolls getting more and more leeway in flaming or outright attacking their interlocutors.
Be that as it may...I haven't attacked you.
Telling you I think you were rude to me isn't a personal attack. Telling you I don't wish to engage you isn't a personal attack. Calling you a man or dutch or 27 years old, isn't an "attack." If any of those things offend you, you need to deal with that yourself. I'm going solely on the information at my disposal... your avatar info. And that could all be wrong for all I know. But, it makes no real difference to me one way or the other.
Name calling is an attack, which I've not done.... "brow beating" might be considered an attack... harassment, at the very least. The latter having been done to ME. You don't see me curling up in a ball and sucking my thumb over it. I'll take the browbeating for a while... when I've had enough and the negatives of participating here exceed the positives, I'll simply find something more interesting to do.
Am I allowed to say there might be something more interesting? Or, is that considered another attack? The bar seems pretty low.