Aspies For Freedom

I don't find it funny.  I find it very sad that people have to resort to a barrage of caustic remarks/insults.  It only escalates the hatred, and the differences don't go away.

Ah, good. I didn't think this would happen so quickly - this way, he can't make the claim that he wasn't aware of the forum rules.

Report will be written and submitted today.

Why?

Both I, Illusion and Pikajedi understood the charitable and correct interpretation, yet you keep insisting that your knee-jerk reaction is correct. Even after clarifications. Astonishing.

Your post wasn't based on an actual understanding on the post you were replying to, but on what I can only guess was an emotional response to seeing pedophile and homosexual in the same sentence. Hence "knee-jerk". I can see why Illusion feels demonised.

Ahem. I read the sentence. If you interpret "I went to the mall today" as "I massacred ten people in a mall today", the interpretation isn't correct "for you", it's simply wrong. This was one of those cases where an actual reading of the post in question reveals the real meaning, and reveals that the attributes meaning was wrong.

Why don't you tell Max the same. He was, after all, the one who thought a one-sentence post with the two words "you're wrong" was a valuable contribution to this thread.

I believe you. It is why he will probably get banned. But so far I haven't seen anything ban-worthy, although I haven't been following him closely. But he will probably be banned, because everyone reacts in the way they do, even when there is no reason for them to do so.

Who cares? I care that this forum is so irrational all the time. Maybe you don't.

(yup, double-rolleyes)

I didn't write one-sentence replies that only said "you're wrong". In fact, I just went and read all the posts in that thread and I couldn't even find any instance where I said "you're wrong" to Ethel at all. I'm not even sure the words occur in any of my posts in that thread except to defend the right to say it. I don't understand the antagonism here. You just want to hate someone, is that it?

Specific studies, please. The best would be a direct quote from somewhere. You see, I suffer from the "delusion" that all science about race and intelligence has been proven to be bunk.

The you was plural, and the subject wasn't just me, but others as well. Incidentally, I agree completely about internet hate.

Max: It would be a lot better if you just admitted you were wrong, instead of making up elaborate mental structures in my mind to account for your error. That says more about you than about me.

I understand perfectly well that people invest different meanings in different words, it's just that I don't take responsibility for the fact that people choose to invest some words and phrases with meanings that aren't there. It's only on this forum that words take on these new meanings that normal discourse doesn't ever unearth. It's only on this forum that people are sensitive to words you see used perfectly well in the outside world. I understand that people here have some very idiosyncratic ways of thought, but that doesn't make them any more right.

On the other hand, I'm wondering whether you are capable of reading what people actually write and envisioning what it is they're saying... This skill is appreciated in some quarters, but apparently not here.

Nice post.

Directly contradicting what you said in the post I replied "nice post" to. Not very nice.

In the post I quoted, you argued for the same interpretation as I did. Then you say you completely agree with Max, who disagreed with my interpretation. So I'm confused.

Good.

Max, do you enjoy doing this? You set it up so that whatever I say, you can just say, "that proves my point", then you sit and laugh. You tell me repeatedly I'm wrong but you don't even attempt to explain it. And of course, you tell me that I don't understand just because I disagree with you. And you accuse me of being unable to understand what others say, when in fact clarifications (as well as other posters) have made it clear that my interpretation was correct.

I don't know what to say to you, other than that I find your contributions to this thread, and especially your exchange with me, to be of incredibly low quality. I guess that doesn't surprise you. Bully on, brother. I bet you like it.