I was sharing a comparison that I thought was funny and followed up your reply with how I made that association. You don't have to identify with it. I don't care if you do. But don't say I'm wrong for sharing my experience as if it were some assertion that it is a universal one. But based on other statements about you in this thread, it seems I'm not the only one who has found you annoying and derailing an otherwise enjoyable non partisan dialog.
Your statements regarding people posting something disingenuously and knowing someone's ulterior motives are emblematic of why I'm open about criticizing you directly. And I do this in full awareness of my history about pushing boundaries in calling out people's internal motivations and crossing that boundary. Reflection on that here has helped me, and I invite active discussion of these things. I think they are critically important. I suggest they are engaged in with mutual curiosity.
So, I invite you, would you share your thoughts on what motivations you see in me? And do so respecting that it is merely your observation and experience rather than authority?
I only offer accurate assessments of reality, which often reflects various parties in poor light. If this is portrayed as a partisan issue, it's because in reality is it. This is a hill that conservatives are choosing to fight on, which is why Weinstein's fans are 95%+ right wingers, and to their credit it's smarter than most they've chosen.
As to the issue itself the assessment is also accurate. The proposal is that for a day white students stay off campus in a sort of contrast to their previous tradition where minorities stay off campus, a somewhat interesting turn of events. What happened is Weinstein not only signaled his personal opposition but endeavored to encourage others to oppose it which rather puts the point of the event at risk, so the claim that he's some innocent bystander in the resulting tussle for control is pretty disingenuous. Clearly things got out of hand for a bit, but with some intervening time and apparently effective msg by the president it's under control. Of course that's to the displeasure of degens fighting to make a mountain out of their hill, which is why the fake news continues to push this as their headline issue. I think it makes for a pretty good lesson in the price associated with trusting that crowd on anything.
You know how this works as well as anyone, but choose to make it seem like something it's not. I'll let you speak to your own motivations for that.
@interchange , For some, participation in political threads simply about raw ideological warfare. In addition, it seems to be a human characteristic that we tend to see ourselves in others, or choose to understand the behavior of others through the lens of own behavior. Some call this psychological projection, but it's probably more subtle than that. We all fall victim to this to a degree, some more obviously so than others.
Let's not pretend you aren't playing your role in this as some sort of "concerned citizen". Just like you were so very concerned about clinton, obama, etc.