This goes to the general mindset of liberals.
I frequent an Ambient Music board (big Brian Eno/Robert Fripp/Steve Roach/etc. fan). The community is predominantly tech engineers who make ambient music on the side (tough to make a living in that genre) - but I blog on ambient music, use their music on mixes I make (which gets me a lot of music I like for free) and generally...we all get along. Every once in a while, someone will squak or leak a bit of liberal rant,
or some idiot waxes philosophical about what would happen if we all closed our eyes in unison & would we then
"wake up" to a different reality...which I usually ignore.
But a few days ago, someone posted this:
...which I ignored for 24 hours, wondering why it was put on the board, which virtually never gets political, almost to the point of clueless-ness. But the next morning, it had been pinned to the top of the board (as opposed to letting it simply go the way of older posts)...so I posted this:
Ferguson?
Is that the inner city where feral animals, intent on proving the process of evolution-in-action, burn their own town to the ground after a 6'4" 290 pound assault & battery thug punches a cop & wrestles him for his weapon, then gets his ass shot dead in the street while his momma wails that he's an "angel" and Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton dials 1-800-Outrage & imports violent, out-of-state thugs & protesters to behave like vermin while he shakes down the establishment for more money on which he won't pay taxes..?
That 'Ferguson'??
I received one general question about Ferguson (from a German member who mentioned the ghettos & crime in Germany)...and the rest were barbed responses to me...including a PM from the board's owner asking me to back off on my "extreme" politics. A little further into the thread, I posted this:
...which drew further (anticipated) tomatoes & prompted the aforementioned PM (I think it was my reference to Barry as a
"Muslim b*tch culture destroyer" that threw him over the edge).
Their heads explode & their "tolerance" dissipates when you weigh in with a conservative POV. I never start these conversations in other-than-conservative environs...but I feel the need to smack it down when it
"invades" areas of my life where it shouldn't occur.