Mind Control Not Yet Achieved, Weeping Ensues
Further to this lively exchange, a new form of “violence” has been conjured into being:
Or, “Yes, you pretend what I tell you to pretend, but I can still tell that you’re pretending.”
Or, “Your perceptions are still your own and this outrages me.”
Update, via the comments:
Our neotenous offendee, ¿jordan¿, is now, inevitably, feigning surprise that his – sorry, their - “simple statement” was found in any way debateable, or indeed megalomaniacal:
lmaoooo i did not expect such a simple statement to shake the room like this… it’s simply about people respecting your pronouns as a bare minimum action and doing nothing else to even genuinely see you for who you are beyond how they refer to you, it’s very superficial.
How dare you decline to hallucinate and not “even genuinely” see what he tells you to see at any given time, you superficial bigot. Now step aside, oppressor, there are selfies to be taken.
As Alice notes,
So doing what he wants is even more ‘violent’ than not doing what he wants.
#gratitude
Well, quite. And if someone is at odds with themselves, with their physical being, then making demands of others, expecting them to lie, and then complaining that said lies are insufficiently convincing and therefore “even more violent” – none of this seems likely to alter the basic dissonance. Though it does seem likely to test the patience of anyone inclined to be indulgent. Goodwill being a finite resource and all.
“In essence the behaviour du jour of the left-wing, Antifa, BLM, transistor & alphabet people, etc. is the same as Peter demanding attention when having a toddler tantrum.”
M’kay…but those Antifa toddlers have Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, green lasers, etc… Not sure simply ignoring them is really an option. How do you propose to prevent damage to the rest of the city and not give them any “attention” ? Normally, one might suggest, isolation, arrest, prosecution and incarceration. But in the current “catch & release” state – what are your options ?
I would suggest that many of these very ‘unusual’ folks making fools of themselves actually are extremely fragile psychologically.
The devil you say.
M’kay…but those Antifa toddlers have Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, green lasers, etc…
To me, this looks like the tantrum behavior modified to work in a larger society. City, state, or federal government aren’t going to care about or notice most random shrieking until it devolves into molotovs, etc. Sadly, most of this violence is purposely and intelligently directed which makes acquiescing more dangerous than giving in to the older mobs of common citizens. It is weird that intelligent actors have adopted mob violence in a time when mobs of violent commoners are mostly nonexistent and while the state has suddenly decided crushing mobs is bad form.
Literally fuck your pronouns.