How to make Cypherpunks a Safe Space - aka, the art of the feels

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sun Mar 26 18:38:40 PDT 2017


Tidied this up a bit and posted here:
http://bbs.dailystormer.com/t/make-safe-spaces-great-again-art-of-the-feels/94619


On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:23:25PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> So I'm just your average snowflake, incapable of receiving any challenge
> to any unreasoned thought I spout without instant reactivity and a shit
> tonne of F-bombs, so fragile that I melt into drop (make that 1/10th of
> a drop) of water at the pre-thought hint of a verbal flame fest, I self
> medicate on a daily (oh all right, hourly) basis since I'm so damaged by
> the system/state/the-man that it's just, you know, hard to cope with my
> life and all the emotional pain of having feelings and worse, having to
> read so many people who DISAGREE WITH ME.
> 
> This is not ok! It's just not safe for my fragile feels (which I try
> to chemically suppress at every opportunity).
> 
> SO, I have discovered the answer, it's a 12-step process so should be
> straightforward even after a dozen tokes:
> 
> 1. I acknowledge that there are dangerous thinking pepes out there who
>    occasionally disagree with me.
> 
> 2. Worse, there are really vicious folk who have opinions and feelings
>    which are flat out wrong! For healing and winning, those morons
>    really need to be seen for who they are!
> 
> 3. Learn how to attack in response, preferably pre-emptively to let the
>    attacker expressing their counter-thought know that I'm on to them!
>    This step is really important, without verbal attacking, strongly,
>    repeatedly, and in as many creative ways as I can conceive, I am not
>    worthy of my feelings, and someone else who reads the conversation
>    might think I lost the argument.
> 
> 4. If the attacker triggers my feels, I always double down with some
>    F-bombs and other strong, powerful words which really get the message
>    across - there's no point exposing myself to such a fate which is
>    worse than death.
> 
> 5. If the attacker still doesn't stop sending emails disagreeing with
>    me or disagreeing with my feelings, threaten to kill-file their email
>    address, to REALLY send them the message that I am NOT messing around
>    here!
> 
> 6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 a few times, especially number 5, since that
>    sends a really strong message when you keep saying it.
> 
> 7. THE ULTIMATE KEY - it's really important to never respond to what the
>    other person says, only to reinforce what I've originally said, or
>    drop a few more F-bmobs. Responding to what the other person says is
>    weakness and must be avoided religiously.
> 
> 8. THE MOST IMPORTANT KEY - one must never, under any circumstances,
>    agree with the other person, not even on a small point, because
>    agreement is weakness. I can't emphasize this one enough.
> 
> 9. THE BIGGEST KEY - is of course to actually kill file the person who
>    persists in disagreeing with me. Then my feels should be reasonably
>    safe from their differing opinions and especially from any facts or
>    logical inconsistencies they may have pointed out.
>    Actual kill-filing is a great end to a long debate, because everyone
>    watching knows that you've really won the debate and put this person
>    in their place!
> 
> 10. When all else fails, pack another bong and light up.
> 
> 
> Have a feels-safe-space, snowflake filled day y'all,
> Zenaan


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