To be fair I riled them up for singling out a female poster. They didn't take the accusations kindly. So I guess I am to blame for derailing as I've should have known they wouldn't have taken it well.
Since nothing substantial will drop for weeks... This is truly a tough one since the D&D is our toxic cesspool. We all like calling each other out on things we see over time, and the aggressive style isn't something people normally do in other forums...maybe GARM when Jimmy or Jerry enter the chat. I replied with a joke about Deb and when she replied that she didn't like it, I stopped. It was a silly joke about how Trump focused she could be. I agree she gets picked on since she gets called out for her Trump rants more often than DD. You don't really see the same suspects who tag Deb tag DD. DD might be more "Trump obsessed" in that he's vocal with wanting Trump to get offed. So I don't know how this can be sorted out. This board likes calling out patterns, but we should aim to be somewhat respectful if it is considered personally offensive. Does it really "depends on the person who is the target"? I guess you call out the behavior, but I think we're deluding ourselves if we think this forum is for meaningful discussion and resolution.
Thank you. There's a difference between people who sit back and watch bullying, or join in, and those who speak out and ask them to stop. I appreciate that.
Honestly I sometimes expect too much from a debate sub forum on a NBA team fan message board. How many years has it been here? I should know by now that the vast majority of "discussing" here is just a bunch of dudes trying to troll and be funny. The slivers of genuine sincere conversations are rare here and I guess that should be expected.
Great post. So what if I were to whine that calling me an Islam or Muslim hater is "bullying"? I painstakingly correct people and say that I am opposed to the ideology of Islam, but not hostile towards Muslims - people conflate the two all the time. I obviously posted a lot about the topic, so then I also have to deal with people labeling me that way. Is it "bullying" if they do that? My opinion is that if you dish it out, you have to be able to take it - all within the rules of this forum (which don't include a permission to do doxing) - and whether you are a guy, woman, trans person or whatever. Constantly posting about a topic, attacking people, and when even the slightest mocking or criticism comes back, then calling it "bullying" or "abuse" is a bit ridiculous in this subforum, which is all about flinging poo (under the relative anonymity we enjoy here - I have no idea who @deb4rockets is, whether she is actually a woman, or whatever - I don't care, and I certainly don't have her photo) anyway. I mean - I tagged her under some obvious meme post - literally only because she obviously dislikes Trump (as do I, by the way) and that was what that meme post was about - she got really upset about it and people call it "bullying". Not sure what y'all's standards are, but I thought that was pretty mild, compared to many other things I and others have been called here.
Members of the Qult of Drumph defending their misogynistic bullying?!? who woulda thunk it. good on ya @fchowd0311 and @jiggyfly for calling them out.
Hmm sorry if I find your claim that you didn't know she was a female poster credible. Between the meme usually being employed to make fun of " generic loud triggered leftist feminist woman" around the internet in right wing bubbles and the fact that many posters here bring up Trump often, I find it most likely you singled her out because she was a female poster probably subconsciously.
Yeah, I don't know. She does have a group of followers who tag her, reply that it's a Trump thing and that they'd do the same for anyone else who makes as many anti-Trump posts. So maybe it's not you or my posts that are the initial cause for "bullying"? ::shrugs:: Beats me. I'm mostly cranky in the morning whenever caffeine is low and don't mind a good shitpost or two.
That's not what I said - she obviously said she is woman, it's in the user name, etc. - but I have no idea who anyone is, except for a handful of posters I have interacted with outside the BBS. I mean, we had a young white guy who called himself a "proud black woman" on the BBS and then someone figured out the real person behind the account and posted the boy's picture. What do I know - my point is, it doesn't even matter - regardless of gender, if you dish it out, you should be able to take some heat and mocking, at least in this subforum. Equal rights, equal treatment. Doesn't make it bullying. We all attack each other in this forum all the time, under the personas we use here.
I'm just curious why you would single her out of a plethora of posters who constantly bring up Trump in reference to a meme that traditionally makes fun of "angry triggered feminists" And then why are there multiple posters claiming I want to have sex with her because I'm calling out the potential misogyny?
I remember that also. Who was that poster again? Do they still post here? God the amount of effort people put in for interest troll jobs is absurd. I never could waste THAT MUCH time being insincere.
we still got generalhate pretending to be Vietnamese getting caught pretending to be a proud black woman is hilarious tho…I’m crying alt accounts will always be 1 of the weirdest things ever to me…I just don’t get how lame u have to be to do it imagine really spending time logging in and out of your alts, giving them different personas, or having full on convos with yourself…so damn weird
