Is anyone else being alert stalked and over noticed?

[BainsBane]

78. That thread has my blood boiling

now that I looked at it. There is the predicable, "some people are here to divide." "Women who claim to speak for all women" excuse, which is a complete lie. There is a strong Positivist perspective by posters who simply cannot imagine, who refuse to imagine, that anyone who thinks differently from themselves can possibly have anything worthwhile to say. Our very existence on this site is illegitimate, to "troll" and "divide." When you or Bravenak speak about racism, you are "causing division" by showing their is another set of experiences which they consider entirely insignificant. If feminists post about violence against women, that is seen as trivial and an effort to "divide and malign" perfectly good DUers, people who have showed exactly what they are over on Discussionist. Positivism was a late- nineteenth early-twentieth century philosophy based on empiricism, with no understanding of the extent to which class, race, and gender influenced their notion of "absolute truth." Although discredited as a philosophy, it continues to frame the ways in which people understanding knowledge and the world around them. For example, one member who has posted a number of threads decrying the use of the term white privilege insisted posts discussing privilege were flamebait, whereas his were not since they took the opposite point of view. I find that kind of inability to hold in one's mind the idea that another POV can legitimately exist to show an astounding level of cognitive dissonance. For such people, there is literally no space between the self and truth. Their views represent truth, while another point of view is not only false, it is "flamebait." The idea that one's views are influenced by life experiences should not be a terribly complicated idea, yet they steadfastly refuse to entertain it.