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Lumus -> RE: Do you try to take the High Road on Collar Me? (12/7/2007 11:45:04 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MzMia
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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross
Constantly announcing one is taking the high road generally is just another form of the low road.
Well, it depends on how you look at it.
People announce all sorts of things, we have a right to say and announce whatever we want.
Thank GOD this is America.
I am taking the high road.
*steps in*
Can we please stop pretending that the world is sugar to make ourselves feel better?
I sometimes agree with LA, sometimes not, and sometimes just toss a playful banter her way. In this case she has it bang on.
You, MzMia, have repeated the high road phrase over and over. I feel like I am being subjected to Doctor Phil, and that happens to offend me.
Let's be clear on one thing: I'm not trying to condemn you for your outlook. I strongly disagree with it, though. For one: -this- *looks around* where I am, is Canada. There are some Europeans and Australians here as well, if you hadn't noticed. Thanking God that this is America, to me - a non-religious non-American - is highly insulting. I don't want to delvolve into any debate about religion here, I'm just saying that your commentary is inappropriate - to me.
That leads to my second point. No two people can view the exact same thing the exact same way. Even if they agree on one facet of the whole, they may have different motivations for doing so. If you enjoy history, you know that disagreement and debate are rife in the past, and more often than not, it serves a purpose. Questioning makes us wiser. Arguing with passion allows us to express the fervency of our beliefs. To touch back for a second...you might feel strongly about Jesus and God. This former minister's son does not. Nor would I take kindly to any flambuoyant display of "God is great", were it to be thrust in my face - yet a person who -is- fervent about God, who feels happy and one with the Universe, might very well cross that line. N'est pas? So not only does verbal debate strengthen views, the strength of said views can also step on toes...
...which is hardly, as you have termed it, the high road, and ultimately encourages the very forms of expression you are repressing.
That's my third point. I'm also not big on censorship. Others have covered that here adequately, and you have chosen to ignore them in favour of your own view - I believe the term for that is "passive aggressive".
And to address your OP directly - your colour and your age are labels, nothing more. They are part of who you are. If someone makes a derisive remark to you about either, you have full control of how that affects you. Not addressing the slight is not always the only way, nor is is the better or best way under all circumstances. Crude as it may sound, if women didn't speak up, where the hell would feminism be today? Or slaves, for that matter? So would I take the high road?
*reads back*
Guess that's a hell no. I wouldn't advise that you try to convince others to do the same, either. It's one thing to lead yourself down the primrose path, quite another to try and coerce others to join you. Someone could get hurt by only turning the other cheek.
Hopefully, you read this and address it with something less condescending than was levelled at others. I highly doubt it, because I have little faith in passive aggressive people to be open and blunt. It's not in their nature. Failing that, I hope someone else reads this and understands that what you're offering is not what it seems.
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