Wow. I’ve read a LOT of comments. I have to say, I have never — ever — read a self-own so complete that it leaves me wondering whether this is all gaslighting. Hand to God, your whole response adds up to “don’t be like Mike.”
“Without claiming that because you had to struggle, this means all white men or white people have everything easy and handed to them and know nothing of struggle themselves this is a very ignorant and naive way of thinking.” I’ll be damned. You did not even bother to read this article, did you? You quite literally read the title and spun out. This is so damn sad and you should be ashamed of yourself. The story was about how a Singaporian woman accused Rebecca of theft.
“Therefore when you speak of your story you . . . ” Hey, so, it’s funny thing how that whole “your story” thing works. Guess who gets to tell her story the way she wants, it being her story and all? OK, here’s the funny part — guess who doesn’t get a vote?
“Now because of this it’s very easy for people to get caught up in their own frame of mind and not recognize the struggle in those around them . . . “ You’re . . . you’re joking, right?
THIS IS MIKE: and “because of this I suffer the same and probably even more hardship than you have ever struggled in your life. . . ” THIS IS ALSO MIKE: and “I’m not going to try to diminish your experience through my own experiences of Injustice.”
OK, I have to ask — did you lose a bet? Who is making you say this stuff? “More hardship than you have ever struggled in your life,” Mike? “More hardship than you have ever struggled in your life.” More. Than you. Tell me you see it, Mike. Please tell me you see what you just did here.
Also “instead of trying to assume that from what I see of their superficial structure that I understand and know everything about them”?? No? Still don’t see it? This really is bad, Michael, so I will make it easy for you: how TF can you believe you have probably had more hardships than Rebecca without — wait for it — assuming you “understand and know everything about” Rebecca?
“Instead I would just point my own experience out and leave it at that.” You have GOT to be . . . OK, Mike. You literally just pointed to your own experience. Then, you literally went on to not leave it at that.
“You can tell the same story without trying to tear other people down at the same time.” Fuck it. I quit.
“I look straight to the core of the individual . . . I can interpret their true being. I’ve gotten very good at this over my lifetime.” No, Michael. You have not gotten very good at this. You are, in fact, very bad at this. Very, very, very bad. So bad that your fingertips should have spontaneously combusted when you tried to type those last nine words.
“It’s about time children grow up and start respecting everyone with the same common dignity as they would hope to be expressed to them.” Agreed.
You did not listen. You did not demonstrate that you even cared. You were not just indifferent but dismissive about Rebecca’s experience and perspective. You totally made up a whole article, a whole assertion, then cried all over stuff no one was saying but you. You should get all of that, in spades.
But here’s what’s funny — as rude and uncaring as you were, you are going to come back after casting yourself as victim: “Catherine, think what you want. You did not hear a thing I said. You didn’t listen and you did not care. You got stuff I said wrong on purpose. Your hate is consuming you, and making you see and think ridiculous things. People like you are the reason the country is as bad as it is.”
If certainly hope so, but if that is the case, don’t bother complaining. I already know I mirrored your conduct perfectly.
#DoNotBeLikeMike
