fliponaswitch said: "
@scottydoesntknow2
I completely agree! As I said, I live in Texas and in a very conservative area. So I get it, I grew in a catholic school environment which until recently in my town was ultra conservative.
Luckily, my family and the people I associate with are in agreement with most of my views, and if not tolerate them and I hope care about me in some way.
However when I see things like this thread. I go into two modes. First. I bust out the popcorn and start playing Mambo from West Side Story and love watching the drama unfold. These types of threads and stuff are great, however there has to come a point where it just gets old. I’m a huge negative Nancy as they say. I look at the wrong sides of everything, over thinker, anxious, and as of late paranoid. I’ve begun carrying my passport just in case something were to happen. As my dad and Boy Scout leader used to say “Be Prepared”
I get being angry, vigilant, but to hold on to it for more than a few hours, possibly days is just ridiculous. I feel like you are hurting yourself more than the person you are attacking. Yes, do what is needed to be done and move the world as best you can but to be a constant negative towards a stranger on the internet.
Also, we as theater fans sort of need to stick together, we are a minority in this country suffice to say. Instead of being on the attack let’s band together and accept each other’s differences."
I can totally see that. It's kind of stewing in the anger in a way that may not be productive or healthy. Maybe some of us, at least I was, were probably using GreeneStreet as a way to vent and express some real anger just because he was there, within reach unlike those who we're really angry about, and he was punching back with some things many of us couldn't let pass (the weird logic, victimhood, etc.), so it became almost like therapy except it may not be leading to a good result but instead making the anger worse. However, I do think many of the responses, not mine, that were given to him were great exercises of expressing their position and why one needs to take responsibility for their vote/positions/expressions.
Updated On: 11/30/18 at 04:37 PM
