You falsely assume

Your cynicism is just compliance. You want to play into the white supremacy machine, then continue to abandon idealism for cynicism. I can’t understand why folks can’t see that this is exactly how the Trump admin got elected... Make people cynical as fuck, then let them tear each other to shreds. Way to go.

In my defense, I was afraid to type up her name because I assumed that as I suspected her a troll, the kind of beating I was going to take would be from her, not everyone else.

using a main thread to call out another poster

But no, I don’t honestly expect people to dismiss their cynicism. And that’s exactly why I try to exorcise my cynicism with snarky humor and idealism.

Cynicism is compliance. The man wants all of us to be cynical and cold and hate on one another because it means white supremacy is winning. If you want to hold on to your cynicism, you may as well just give up because the right wing has already won.

Could you please paste the portion of the conversation where she identified herself as a black woman? I specifically questioned her gender and her legitimacy of her identity because she came off sounding just like a shit stirring right wing troll (which this site is loaded to it’s eyeballs with in teh greys).... I…

Let me ask you this. Is is not a sign of fragility to claim hate speech when someone points your anger out to you?

Judging by all the comments I’ve received I doubt she’ll have to claim anything. I think people are missing the fact that I legitimately thought it was a troll and now I’m just persona non-grata because I dared to tell someone to calm down. *throws hands into the air*

So, let me get this straight. My feelings are fragile, but you think telling someone to calm down and think positive is condescending? Explain that to me.

Agree. I think you nailed it.

Thanks for the sincerity. Sincerity and bona-fide conversation is legit my goal. I hope you have a great day too! :-)

So asking people to look on the bright side is now completely off limits? Got it.

What are you trying here? What do you want to prove?

Maybe you are right. There’s nothing at all hostile about yelling hate speech at someone who suggested that you think positively and be less angry. That’s a completely reasonable response. In fact, the lady at the bank asked me why I looked so blue this morning, I should have looked at her right in her face and…

The only way I can explain that is through the cynical lens of everyone else. If you read my words with derision and cynicism then they are not going to come across as encouragingly positive and good intentioned. Conversely, you can look at Roo’s responses with a generic plain lens and her anger shines through no…

You should’ve just stopped after Yesha killed it with her reply to your OP. If you wanted to avoid meanness, why initiate a callout post?

I’d love to think she is nice. It’s always the first assumption I make about people. But if she was so nice, she wouldn’t flip out so hard on people who agree with her. Like I said, this isn’t my first run in with her. I generally like her posts and think she is making very great points. But my experience with her is…

I appreciate Roo’s outrage too. That’s why I commented on her post to begin with. The screen shots are there if you’d like to do something other than make assumptions about me or my intentions. There is no reason to be so mean. None. That’s why we are all here...because mean people fucking suck.

I just do not understand how we are all supposed to set ourselves clearly apart from the angry rhetoric of the right wing while there are those of us on the left that would so eagerly eat their own, with the same kind of anger and venom. That’s not solidarity.