make fun of me and call me names. Which is really sad that this is the case, because that's not the way you encourage anyone to become educated about important things. And really, seems like...

Maybe part of the reason people in my country just keep getting stupider and stupider.

So that's a sad realization.

I once commented on a plurk by asking why a thing is a problem to understand the issue (genuine question), and it was misconstrued as a defensive/attack.

Being someone who is not afraid of confrontation, ofc I didn't make it any better.

We ended up hashing it out on PP...and midway the person realised I'm not from the US and that it was a legit question.

Plurk debate is always going to be dangerous because of experiences like that, I feel. No one is 100% clear where anyone is coming from.

i'm from a horrible part of the south as well, and sometimes my questions have been perceived as me being a racist but really its me not knowing that things are bad. i am happy to be educated and will never

tell someone to stop or shut up but i don't like being treated like i willfully did this/said this to be cruel.

kseenaa: I have a pretty good academic education, being the child of a professor, but I do not feel I have a good social education.

ZeeZuleicca: Communication is often so tricky on the internet. I wish people were less prone to immediately going into attack mode.

nimil: I just want to be sensitive and kind and helpful, you know?