While your default is that I’m a racist who likes to bitch about black people? Please clarify.
No, don’t bother. The fact is that you simply have a low opinion of me. I choose to accept that and move on. I probably won’t even remember this little tiff and will go back to my default of liking you. A failing memory is nice like that.
ETA: And Larry, don’t bother thinking about it. It was a stupid OP that I shouldn’t have posted.
I am glad we have had this conversation.
The implied threat here is particularly amusing.
I like you just fine, dropzone. Getting called on your shit is good for you. I’m trying to help you BECAUSE I like you. Now, shut up. That’s it…that’s nice…just shut up now.
The best advice I was ever given was “Don’t say anything stupid.” I rarely follow it. ETA: I’ll try it now.
But now I’m all curious. Maybe if you used fake names it would be clearer?
Anyway, I’m distracted and am now researching the South’s Culture of Honor. Interesting stuff.
You are not either distracted. Distracted people would be off being distracted and forgetting to post. You are posting here trying to make the rest of us distracted from all the stuff you have previously said in this thread and trying to make some kind of point, I assume, about how non-racist you are because you are reading up on Southern culture. This is not helping. And I also want to know more about this confusing baby situation.
:rolleyes: A, B, and C are my coworkers. D has the Facebook page with E’s baby’s picture. C was offended because it was not her baby’s picture, though she’s more closely related to D than E is. Happy now? Can we let that part of it drop?
Huh? No, don’t bother explaining because I really would like to get back to my reading. I just check back here to defend my honor :rolleyes: and because people post while I’m replying to someone else. It’s only polite to show that I have read your post.
Okay, you really didn’t explain that well at all then. It’s not that hard to understand. I’d be hurt if, say, my sister was showing off pictures of the baby of a distant friend or relative and ignoring my baby.
“You are not either distracted” HAHAAA! Ah. MsWhatsit.
ETA: I picture dropzone peering over the rims of his glasses, knocking over his copy of The Genteel Southerner and the Gleefully Ghetto Negro…an Analysis. “I’m sorry. I was distractedly reading. Did you say something?”
I believe you’ll find the critically acclaimed documentary The Boondocks will prove you wrong, silly.
Actually, it’s this. What can I say? I’m easily distracted. I have 11 Firefox tabs, an episode of “Burn Notice,” a PDF of “The Bulletin of the Harry Stephen Keeler Society,” a software installer, and Windows Task Manager all open and and attracting my attention in turns.
I’m not glad we had this conversation anymore. You are making me not glad.
26 posts later:
Thank you. And I am happy because now I feel I have a chance of understanding the situation.
I agree. Maybe the OP was confused because it was related in terms of “respect” rather than “hurt.”
Whoooo! Rolleyes! Looks like someone isn’t as immune to insults as they thought!
See post 7. 
I might need a booster shot.
“Oh no, you di-unt!”
That’s all I got.
So after finally explaining wtf you were talking about (your OP made zero sense to me until post 29), I’m still confused by why being old and white made you think this was a “cultural” thing. Also, still not sure wtf you’re talking about. So D put a photo of E’s baby on D’s Facebook profile, and several coworkers found that disrespectful due to some back story that they didn’t fill you in on. You’re confused by…? The concept of disrespect in general, or why some people are upset by it, or do you think only dark people don’t like being disrespected?
Were you drinking when you wrote your OP? It’s okay. I’m drinking when I write, like, 90% of mine.