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Kaep

"Stop stepping on my toes!"
"Please shut up unless you know where I should step instead of your toes."
"Anywhere but my toes!"
"This isn't helpful."
"It hurts. All I want you to do is stop hurting me!"
"Unless you have a better plan I'd appreciate if you would stop complaining."
"My plan is for you to stop stepping on my toes."
"Well that's nonsense!. And quite frankly I'm growing tired of all the whining."
"I don't like it."
"Well it isn't bothering me, so it seems like you're the one with the problem."
"It hurts."
"Ugh, I was tired of the whinging before, now it's just getting out of hand."
"But all you have to do is stop stepping on my toes."
"I've been stepping on your toes for a while now and it wasn't a problem. Now all the sudden you want to cry about it? What is it you really want?"
"I honestly just want you to stop stepping on my toes."
"Again with the complaining when you offer no solutions?"
"Do you have to step on my toes?"
"That's the way things have been and I don't see any reason to change. If you have some idea of who's toes I ought to be stepping on instead I'm all ears."
"You don't have to step on anyone's toes."
"Why do you hate our traditions? What do you have against all the men and women who stepped on toes before us?"
"Nothing, I just want there to be no more stepping on toes."
"Well you should probably go back to whatever third-world place you're from where they don't step on toes."
"I'm from here. It just hurts and I want it to stop. I love this place. I want this place to be better. I'll try to come up with some ideas of better things to step on but with my toes in so much pain it's hard to think."
"Now you're just making excuses! I knew you were lazy."
"I'm not lazy but I can't really move while you're stepping on my toes."
"I stepped on toes without anyone else's help. If I can make myself into a toe-stepper through hard word and dedication I really don't want to hear your excuses as to why you cannot step on toes."
"Was someone stepping on your toes when you started?"
"Of course not! You take me for the kind of person that lets someone step on my toes. I simply wouldn't have it."
"I don't want to step on anyone's toes, I just want for noone to step on MY toes."
"What kind of fantasy world do you live in? You think everyone is just going to stop stepping on other people's toes?"
"Right now the only one I care about is you because you're stepping on my toes. If you don't stop on your own I'm going to make you stop."
BLAM!
"You guys saw that, right? He threatened me and in fear for my life I shot him."
 
Darkwing Duck said:
But you just said that protestors have to have a long, specific, wordy explanation of their platform for you to take it seriously while shunning the "simple action" of protesting a flag ceremony.

Are you saying what you agree with needs to be simple and what you don't agree with has to be complicated to justify what you agree with? This is the strangest post yet.
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I didn't say anything needs to be long and wordy, but even if it is it needs to be clear (not convoluted intelligentsia speak). I think it would be a lot more effective if they could tell people specifically what they want. It could lead to the solving significant problems.
 
jimmy eat jazz said:
But that's part of the point. It is a complicated issue that involves complex and interrlated problems (including power assymetries) and that requires reflection, discussion, etc. Talking points don't do the trick here, neither does members of power structures dimsissing Kaep's protest because it doesn't fall within the paramters they would impose on members of disempowered groups engaging in social protest.
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You're obviously a very smart guy. You should consider learning to speak English.
 
Stoked said:
What? I felt his post was very easy to understand. Did you really fail to understand it or are you just trying to be a jerk?
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I'm not trying to be a jerk. I don't see how what I said was offensive, but if it was taken that way, I apologize. IMO using clear and simple language is the best way to communicate.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I'm not trying to be a jerk. I don't see how what I said was offensive, but if it was taken that way, I apologize. IMO using clear and simple language is the best way to communicate.
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The reason I asked was that I clearly understood what he was saying. Your implication that he learn English, despite him using it better than you and I lol, seemed to be off to me.

Either you understood and were just taking shots at him or you really didn't understand. So I couldn't tell if it was genuine or just you taking a shot at his complex sentences (AKA being rude).

Just asking. thanks for the clarifier.
 
Stoked said:
The reason I asked was that I clearly understood what he was saying. Your implication that he learn English, despite him using it better than you and I lol, seemed to be off to me.

Either you understood and were just taking shots at him or you really didn't understand. So I couldn't tell if it was genuine or just you taking a shot at his complex sentences (AKA being rude).

Just asking. thanks for the clarifier.
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And that's where the problem lies. He wants an unwinnable situation, which brings it back to wanting it to be unheard and unseen.

Say something like "The result of institutional biases and controls beset upon a certain socioeconomic demographic group of a wing of the government, namely the policing wing, represented symbolically by the national flag is increased death and suppression" is too complicated. We need to use "English" and be succinct.

Say something like "Quit killing black people" doesn't have stats or something and isn't sophisticated enough to bother paying attention to.

Be somewhere in the middle is not being simple OR complicated enough.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
And that's where the problem lies. He wants an unwinnable situation, which brings it back to wanting it to be unheard and unseen.

Say something like "The result of institutional biases and controls beset upon a certain socioeconomic demographic group of a wing of the government, namely the policing wing, represented symbolically by the national flag is increased death and suppression" is too complicated. We need to use "English" and be succinct.

Say something like "Quit killing black people" doesn't have stats or something and isn't sophisticated enough to bother paying attention to.

Be somewhere in the middle is not being simple OR complicated enough.
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I see what you're saying. There's really no option other than expressing the message one of those ways. If only they could say something like, "Here's the case of John Doe. Here's why he should never have been shot. Can you believe the police officer who killed him received no punishment and is back on the streets? I demand that we open an honest dialogue in order to prevent this and the other X number of unjustified police killings of African-Americans that have occurred in the last 12 months alone."
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I see what you're saying. There's really no option other than expressing the message one of those ways. If only they could say something like, "Here's the case of John Doe. Here's why he should never have been shot. Can you believe the police officer who killed him received no punishment and is back on the streets? I demand that we open an honest dialogue in order to prevent this and the other X number of unjustified police killings of African-Americans that have occurred in the last 12 months alone."
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He's doing exactly that


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