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roachspit (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} roachspit) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunny_fandom, |
After seeing many more people speak out on this, it's good to see people standing up for something they believe in in a firm and generally rational way.
You may not realize this, but that sentence comes across as incredibly condescending. We don't want to be patted on the head and told, "Good job." We want the bronies to stop being disrespectful assholes. Also, we generally don't like condescension and have a tendency to bite people's hands when they try to pat us on the head.
Whether I am/was personally offended or not by the "Derpy" character, and in fact, whether anyone else was personally not offended by the character doesn't matter.
Okay, now you're showing improvement...
Enough people were and Hasbro did what they felt was best.
...and now you're not. Enough people were offended? How many people counts as "enough people"? Is it one hundred? Two hundred? How about a dozen? Because I think it's one. One reasonable person who is offended is too many. There is no acceptable level of offense here.
If I offended anyone with my previous comment, it was never my intent.
Intent is not fucking magic. You might want to rephrase that. You didn't even say "sorry." :(
When I posted, there weren't hundreds of comments/replies yet.
There were enough. We can read timestamps.
Sorry for not being constantly present to monitor the discussion every second.
You are forgiven.
Nice to see we can accept when people start out on opposing sides and end up agreeing with you be learning more about the subject. Good way to encourage more open dialogue.
You may have learned something, but you started by offending people and followed up with a fauxpology. Bad form.
As a southerner, I get tired of the "missing teeth, didn't graduate 5th grade, wear only overalls and no shoes, dumb as a rock, inbred hayseed redneck" trope, but not much ever gets done about that. It makes too much money, I guess. Larry the Cable Guy isn't even actually southern, so a northerner slurs southerners and makes big bucks and is hugely popular for doing it. *sighs*
I'm from Georgia. Is that relevant to the current discussion? No. We are not playing oppression Olympics. And even if we were, "Southerners are stupid" is in no way comparable to the "People with disabilities are all retarded and subhuman. Let's point and laugh at them! Hur hur!" bullshit that the bronies are pulling right now.
You may not realize this, but that sentence comes across as incredibly condescending. We don't want to be patted on the head and told, "Good job." We want the bronies to stop being disrespectful assholes. Also, we generally don't like condescension and have a tendency to bite people's hands when they try to pat us on the head.
Whether I am/was personally offended or not by the "Derpy" character, and in fact, whether anyone else was personally not offended by the character doesn't matter.
Okay, now you're showing improvement...
Enough people were and Hasbro did what they felt was best.
...and now you're not. Enough people were offended? How many people counts as "enough people"? Is it one hundred? Two hundred? How about a dozen? Because I think it's one. One reasonable person who is offended is too many. There is no acceptable level of offense here.
If I offended anyone with my previous comment, it was never my intent.
Intent is not fucking magic. You might want to rephrase that. You didn't even say "sorry." :(
When I posted, there weren't hundreds of comments/replies yet.
There were enough. We can read timestamps.
Sorry for not being constantly present to monitor the discussion every second.
You are forgiven.
Nice to see we can accept when people start out on opposing sides and end up agreeing with you be learning more about the subject. Good way to encourage more open dialogue.
You may have learned something, but you started by offending people and followed up with a fauxpology. Bad form.
As a southerner, I get tired of the "missing teeth, didn't graduate 5th grade, wear only overalls and no shoes, dumb as a rock, inbred hayseed redneck" trope, but not much ever gets done about that. It makes too much money, I guess. Larry the Cable Guy isn't even actually southern, so a northerner slurs southerners and makes big bucks and is hugely popular for doing it. *sighs*
I'm from Georgia. Is that relevant to the current discussion? No. We are not playing oppression Olympics. And even if we were, "Southerners are stupid" is in no way comparable to the "People with disabilities are all retarded and subhuman. Let's point and laugh at them! Hur hur!" bullshit that the bronies are pulling right now.
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