Thanks for reading thru my rant and responding. I really need to get better at letting things go.
Yeah and I think that’s where the struggle part of the session came in, but I feel like that’s on them. I’m not denying the presence of any of those things on a broader societal level and I feel like that would be part of a productive discussion, but it’s not productive to present ones interpretation and what one infers from the text as if it were the text itself.
If people would interpret my argument as denying those broader realities despite me making it very clear what I am arguing about and from, then I feel like that’s an issue of those people, not me. At the very least I would hope they would operate with doubt about my position instead of certainty, when I don’t directly dismiss those larger structures as existing. That’s not the impression I got from the thread, I got the impression a sunset of the user base had half-read the post, made up their mind that they were right, and then went in with the notion that since they were leftists and have read some theory or other, then everyone disagreeing with them is, at best, uneducated/unknowing.
That’s the broader impression I got from the session at large, which is me making a lot of assumptions about a large group of people. It’s also something I’ve seen happen a bunch of times on here.
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Thanks for reading thru my rant and responding. I really need to get better at letting things go.
Yeah and I think that’s where the struggle part of the session came in, but I feel like that’s on them. I’m not denying the presence of any of those things on a broader societal level and I feel like that would be part of a productive discussion, but it’s not productive to present ones interpretation and what one infers from the text as if it were the text itself.
If people would interpret my argument as denying those broader realities despite me making it very clear what I am arguing about and from, then I feel like that’s an issue of those people, not me. At the very least I would hope they would operate with doubt about my position instead of certainty, when I don’t directly dismiss those larger structures as existing. That’s not the impression I got from the thread, I got the impression a sunset of the user base had half-read the post, made up their mind that they were right, and then went in with the notion that since they were leftists and have read some theory or other, then everyone disagreeing with them is, at best, uneducated/unknowing.
That’s the broader impression I got from the session at large, which is me making a lot of assumptions about a large group of people. It’s also something I’ve seen happen a bunch of times on here.