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Victor D. Sandiego's avatar

Now that was refreshing. And I will say no more except to mention that I recently went back and forth with someone who insisted that not voting or not voting for the proper party was racist, and therefore deserved to be called out as such. And when I properly pointed out that that's not what the word means at all, he went on to explain that it's not racist in the usual and defined sense of the word, but racist nevertheless. Which defeats the whole purpose of having words with meanings.

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Ned Smith's avatar

Ken, out of sincere concern for your mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, I urge you to take a break from social media. The things you’re often describing, things which seem to cause genuine anguish and even despair, simply don’t exist once you shut the laptop or put down the device.

Nobody cares about ‘appropriation’ or 57 genders. The people who pretend to care deeply about it are just as annoying as the people who get upset at the people who pretend to care about it. There’s a multibillion dollar industry that relies on keeping everyone as outraged and upset as possible, and there are political movements which benefit from that outrage too, but the outrage itself just isn’t worth spending precious time and energy on.

I myself stopped using Facebook in November of 2016 and have never looked back.

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