I have witnessed this exact phenomenon in Aion of all things back in the day lol - one rando loved to talk to my main but hated one of my alts, so he'd often trashtalk to me about myself.
It happened to me just changing name and profile pic. Turns out when you start talking inside humor with people who don't know they know you, some start viscerally hating you
Not too unrealistic, many people into political debate struggle to come to terms with people having opinions that don’t perfectly align with the ideology they’ve radicalized themselves into.
True story: Back when arguing with people online was still fun, I noticed a distinct pattern; all the people arguing from a certain leaning were invariable middle/upper-middle class white people. And when my friends/family members who aren't white would join in the fun, those middle-class white people wouldn't argue with them.
So I hatched a theory and tested it. We created a few sock puppet accounts of various genders and ethniticies. If I said certain things about certain topics the whities would be fucking rabid. But I could say the exact same thing, word for word, from an ethnic woman's account and these fuckers would 'respectfully disagree' but thank me for my valuable and diverse viewpoints, or outright agree with everything I said.
It really has nothing to do with the viewpoint, opinion, message, or even objective facts. They take offense to who is saying it.
You say all that matters is who’s saying it, but they’re still disagreeing, no? Even if it’s more “respectful” it’s not like the underlying ideas are changing. Your comment is very contradictory.
I honestly don’t see a contradiction. There’s a big difference between a Black woman saying she blames Black men for being absent fathers, and a white kid with a profile picture he got from 4chan saying the same thing. Context isn’t irrelevant, and even in the strawmanny case presented here, the best Bobo could come up with was the people he’s baiting continuing to hold a consistent viewpoint, just more or less patiently depending on context. Hardly the win he’s making it out to be.
Ah it seems you might be the kind of people the greentext is talking about then. Are you a leftist by any chance? Either way, the point is that both the black woman and the 4chan kid could present the exact same arguments and context yet be treated vastly different.
Yes, and I’m saying that’s a totally fine and reasonable thing to do. You might be surprised to learn that a black woman and a white kid likely have different life experiences that give context to even identical arguments.
You might be surprised, but if for example a white kid gives the same arguments and context because they are talking precisely about the black woman's experience, that is not a fine and reasonable thing to do.
You're essentially disregarding a black woman's experience because a white kid is bringing it to the table.
Fascinating mental gymnastics we’re performing now. So in the situation where a young white kid (who admittedly spends a little too much time on 4chan) is faithfully conveying the lived experiences of a Black woman (presumably having heard it from her himself) and presents her experience with no further agenda, I’d definitely still respectfully disagree with the white kid.
However, in the far more likely scenario where the white kid is using generalized experiences of a stereotype of Black women as fodder for a bad-faith argument to present another race as inferior to his own, I would block and move on.
Source: spent a shameful 6 months on a discord political debate server when I was in high school and had nothing better to do during Covid. A case study exactly like the latter would appear almost daily.
>Fascinating mental gymnastics
Despite my better judgement I kept reading after this one.
Good thing in the end we agree that what matters is not the messenger's skin color, but what is being said. Have a nice day.
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