22 Jan
2016
22 Jan
'16
9:28 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers <
callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Sounds like you're policing what other people
choose to spend their time
on. Oddly enough, I've seen comments like yours countless times when the
subject lands on sexism, racism, homophobia, and so on. What I find
especially interesting is that these types of comments are louder when
it's a subject that isn't "generally recognized" to be hurtful. In my
own lifetime, I've watched the discussion shift significantly when the
subject is homophobia, and I currently watch appalled as fatphobia is
still considered acceptable (with constant deprecatory comments similar
to yours).
Or we're just tired of hearing the same arguments back and forth. Does one
person's sixth email on the same topic really help?
(See also long conversations from October 2015, November 2015, and hundreds
of Facebook posts.)
There's times when you reach a point where you won't convince each other
for now. Meanwhile it drowns out a once productive list into raw noise.
I'm now skimming the archives back from a few years ago, and miss the days
when there was more discussion of various topics. The list was originally
created to well, to do this:
http://www.sharedweight.net/index.php?pagestate=about
Curmudgeonly,
-Chris Page
San Diego, CA