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In reply to the discussion: This Is What Saudi Arabia's First PSA For Violence Against Women Looks Like [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)If a picture of a woman in a bikini bothers you, don't look at it. That you take a picture of someone you've never met as a personal insult to YOU- I don't even grok how you get there from here. To claim, as you did, that it means I 'enjoy hurting people' --- that is absurd.
And that was the nasty comment. Not the thing about cheesecake. You're bright, you realize that.
No one "belittled rape victims". NO ONE. I made one slightly flippant comment referring to one well-known attribute of a DU member that they, themselves use to identify, without fully understanding their backstory, and once I did, I apologized.
It's still there- I don't want to dig it up, but if you think that's some sort of "gotcha", that's ridiculous. You go ahead and find all the mean, inappropriate personal attacks I've made. Go look.
While you're at it, have a look at your own transparency page sometime, the personal attacks, etc.
Okay, you're right, then... I guess we have no business criticizing governments that stone gay people to death, or societies that don't allow women to drive or leave the house unchaperoned. By all means, let's not let our "innate sense of imperialist superiority" delude us into dangerous territories where we might actually say "hey, that's fucked up". Absolutely. Nope, nothing I can say to that fusillade of echo chamber babble.
As for the rest of it, waaaay tl;dr.
Have a good one.