make it stop!
Jan. 4th, 2003 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squamousAs I was saying I keep poking around the wonderful world of livejournal endlessly. This dear_islam community is gonna give me hives. My finger sometimes itches to respond to something there, which I find usually is a stupid, pointless impulse, and to be resisted. But what gets me is, I think I am seeing this hopeless dynamic at work in that community. It goes something like this:
- someone posts an entry detailing one or many atrocities perpetrated by an "Islamist"
- someone, often but not always someone Islamic, retaliates by posting something reminding everyone that Christians and Jews can be and have been real motherfuckers, too
- much barking ensues on all sides
The lesson then is, what, that we don't like one another, and we are all selfish and awful, and defensive about it. Something like that. Lots of resentment and assumptions and corrections all around. We are doomed.
dear_islam community is gonna give me hives. My finger sometimes itches to respond to something there, which I find usually is a stupid, pointless impulse, and to be resisted. But what gets me is, I think I am seeing this hopeless dynamic at work in that community. It goes something like this:- someone posts an entry detailing one or many atrocities perpetrated by an "Islamist"
- someone, often but not always someone Islamic, retaliates by posting something reminding everyone that Christians and Jews can be and have been real motherfuckers, too
- much barking ensues on all sides
The lesson then is, what, that we don't like one another, and we are all selfish and awful, and defensive about it. Something like that. Lots of resentment and assumptions and corrections all around. We are doomed.
