Do you mean a post that also says the same things about white people that n_s’s post says about women (e.g., that the author becomes subhuman around white people, that interacting with white people is distressing, that white people are less interesting than black people and that the author’s occasional belief otherwise is simply an illusion they ought to adjust for)?
Yeah, I expect that would change how I regard the author. I mean, if nothing else, I’m a white person, and it’s difficult to listen to that sort of thing without having an emotional reaction to it.
Or do you just mean a post that says that the complaints of white people about black creepiness make the author disinclined to try to interact with us? I expect that would change how I regard the author less.
The latter is how I interpret nyansandwich’s post; it’s what it starts with, it’s how it justifies the former points, and what it isn’t used to justify comes off as something like sour grapes. (How does nyan_sandwich know how interesting women are if he’s too nervous to interact with them on a human level?)
Can’t really criticize you for taking the more negative interpretation, however, since I do the same thing pretty frequently.
Especially given that the “more negative interpretation” in this case involves treating the author’s statements about their experience as accurately describing their experience.
But, sure, if I restrict my attention to only those claims which are somehow justified by the assertion that the complaints of women about male creepiness make the author disinclined to try to interact with women, my reaction to the post is very different.
That said, I’m not sure why I ought to restrict my attention in that way.
Do you mean a post that also says the same things about white people that n_s’s post says about women (e.g., that the author becomes subhuman around white people, that interacting with white people is distressing, that white people are less interesting than black people and that the author’s occasional belief otherwise is simply an illusion they ought to adjust for)?
Yeah, I expect that would change how I regard the author. I mean, if nothing else, I’m a white person, and it’s difficult to listen to that sort of thing without having an emotional reaction to it.
Or do you just mean a post that says that the complaints of white people about black creepiness make the author disinclined to try to interact with us? I expect that would change how I regard the author less.
The latter is how I interpret nyansandwich’s post; it’s what it starts with, it’s how it justifies the former points, and what it isn’t used to justify comes off as something like sour grapes. (How does nyan_sandwich know how interesting women are if he’s too nervous to interact with them on a human level?)
Can’t really criticize you for taking the more negative interpretation, however, since I do the same thing pretty frequently.
Especially given that the “more negative interpretation” in this case involves treating the author’s statements about their experience as accurately describing their experience.
But, sure, if I restrict my attention to only those claims which are somehow justified by the assertion that the complaints of women about male creepiness make the author disinclined to try to interact with women, my reaction to the post is very different.
That said, I’m not sure why I ought to restrict my attention in that way.
FYI, the former “uncharitable” interpretation is correct.