Microcultures, Politics, and Miscommunication

[rockinlibrarian]

As you may know, depending on how closely you follow me on other platforms or know me in real life, we recently took a trip to DISNEY WORLD (*ahem* didn’t mean to shout that, that’s just the sort of thing you can’t help shouting, so, anyway). Here is a little of that if you missed it. My parents went too, but were taking the autotrain, and they

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[ext_1330007]

this boggles my mind. in a both cool and not cool way. cause it forces you to think of people complexly and makes you realize how hard that is.

[rockinlibrarian]

Yep. I'm happy to mind-boggle you!

[elouise82]

Wait, people have turned "spade" into a derogatory term? Doggone it. It's bad enough that I don't dare use any emojis because I'm pretty sure they all mean something dirty I'm just not aware of, now I have to be careful of gardening terms?

I'm obviously being facetious here, but I have to say, keeping track of what's currently offensive is exhausting. Our pastor spoke just this morning on love not being quick to take offense, or delighting in wrongdoing (as in, delighting in OTHER PEOPLE doing wrong because it makes you feel better about yourself), and yeah, I like that, let's try living that way because I don't have the energy to do the other anymore. I get so tired and bewildered that I sometimes can't even figure out what I SHOULD be outraged over, and what it something being blown out of proportion. Outrage fatigue, I guess. Like compassion fatigue, but even less profitable.

[rockinlibrarian]

Hah, I have that problem with emojis, too!

On one hand, if someone tells you you've been acting under an assumption that something's okay but it actually ISN'T, you should probably fix that. But on the other hand, no matter what you say, SOMEONE is going to get offended. You fix your unconsciously bigoted speech and somebody on the other side is going to accuse you of pushing a "liberal agenda." So I guess the best thing to do is act out of love, and if it turns out somebody's offended you listen carefully to see if they have something to teach you or if they're splitting hairs-- but you DO listen, and if it changes the way you act out of love, then you're still acting out of love... I hope I'm making sense, I'm sick today...!