Bullshit. If you were answering some hypothetical question and I suggested internalised racism might have influenced your judgement, would you react the same way?
It’s a common human failing to be influenced in our judgement by what we want to be true. I wasn’t accusing you of anything more than that, and I wasn’t replying to only you. I know perfectly well you aren’t actually in this situation.
He thinks all my posts are bad faith because he’s biased as fuck. Interpreting everything in the worst possible light.
He also made false accusations against me in ATMB and didn’t bother to respond when I showed he was wrong.
For example: I think LHOD wants you to be trolling, because he doesn’t want to reconcile the idea that you might be operating in good faith with the fact that you’ve disagreed with him over certain trans issues. So he will always read your posts with the least amount of charity possible.
I know the feeling, because back in the day when we argued bitterly over misgendering, I really wanted DemonTree to be a troll, too, and it colored the way I viewed what she was saying to a degree that was deeply unhelpful.
Yeah, that’s a more concise way to put what I said.
Thank you. Communication is hard enough at the best of times; I know I have jumped to wrong conclusions in the past because I disliked (or more than disliked) another poster.
I didn’t intend to attack anyone personally in my original comment. It was a general observation, but I knew it could potentially be seen as an attack. I was trying to be tactful, not passive aggressive.
I think @Demontree was, and continues to be, a bad-faith poster. I have yet to have an encounter with her to suggest otherwise. The best I can say for her is that she buys her own bullshit. I have no particular interest in dissecting it beyond that.
I agree. It’s always reasonable to assume bad faith with DT.
Bad faith and blind ignorance often look similar from the outside.
I am neither. There’s just no way to convince someone you are speaking in good faith if they are determined to believe otherwise, because they simply disbelieve everything you say.
Which fine, they can believe what they want. But LHoD keeps accusing me of shit I didn’t do, and I’m sick of it.
Isn’t that pretty much the definition of not posting in bad faith?
Self-deception is not good faith. What it comes down to is that I don’t believe she’ll engage in a way that I find intellectually honest.
It’s a weird situation: on the rare occasions I’ve made it clear to someone that I don’t think they’re engaging in good faith, they’ve generally taken the hint and stopped trying to engage with me. She hasn’t.
So I’m going to take a step I’ve not taken in more than a decade. I’m gonna use the block feature. Going forward, hopefully that’ll help me not get irritated at her passive-aggressive ad hominem bullshittery.
What is she lying (to herself?) about again?
That thread feels like a number of people who need to unpack at their therapist.
Oh, I didn’t see your edit.
I gotta say, this:
Is absolutely unhinged.
DemonTree hasn’t directed any passive aggressive ad hominem bullshittery towards you in that thread. Are you OK?
He’s not blocking her because of that thread, he’s saying he should have done it long ago. She’s been a bad faith poster for a long, long time.
She’s disagreed with you (and with me, at times) about trans issues for a long, long time.
That doesn’t make her a bad faith poster.
I agree, it’s the long history of bad faith in so many other threads.
I’m sure you’re just full of examples that are so obvious to you that you don’t think you even need to share them, but I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.
IMO, she’s a tiresome, tone-deaf, witnessing, apparently true-believer poster, who cherry-picks her cites. And that’s why I stopped seeing her posts a long time ago.
How nice for you.