a billion people have facebook accounts.
The behavior you describe doesn't make you a knight in shining armor, it makes you a jerk who doesn't care about other people.
So let me get this straight (pun intended).
If you are a Leftist and say something, whether or not it is true, and you are in disagreement with everyone else in the room, you have "
Spoken truth to power" and should be celebrated--but if you are a Conservative and speak the truth in a room full of people who are deluded into believing otherwise, you are a
thing to be attacked as "uncaring and unfeeling".
It is called "
Tough love." It isn't warm and cuddly, it speaks the truth, warts and all, and points out the fallacies of people's thinking because the alternative is to allow people to go unchecked down a path that will cause far more pain and suffering.
You don't let your kid play with matches because fire is "pretty" and they'd cry if you took them away--you stop them because self-immolation is far uglier.
If bath houses had been closed and people "uncaringly" tracked down and quarantined, at least until the disease (then called GRID, for Gay Related Immune Disorder, but now known as HIV/AIDS) was better understood, maybe 1.3 million people (just here in the US) would not be dying of a lethal disease that will cost the rest of us Americans a Trillion dollars for just the people infected now.
That doesn't take into account the cost of letting it jet-set around the world, where it is killing even more people. Nor does it take into account the collateral damage done to other research efforts and health care systems.
Nope. Instead "caring" people who attacked the "-phobic" and demanded their "rights" agitated to be 'left alone' with the result that millions are dying.
See how that works?
As for the offended gig, got it. Eff it. Waah. Let 'em squirm. I will call 'em as I see 'em, and if their "diversity" doesn't allow for that, tough. If what I have to say is ignored, it will be done at their personal, self-inflicted, peril. I have known a lot of people who pursued paths I would not advise, and I can visit their graves today. They would have been roughly my age had they survived their fallacies.
I won't bother with "I told you so.", because there really is no satisfaction in in surveying the devastation I and others like me have tried to prevent.
But don't bother to come whining to me about the mess made against my advice and expect me to have any sympathy for self-inflicted wounds. "
You broke it, you bought it" applies. I'll give (what should be familiar) advice on how to fix it, but I won't do the work.
And oh, yeah,
No more Mr. Nice Guy. If it takes being considered a sonofab*tch to keep people from wrecking their world and mine, I'll wear the title proudly, and not give a diddly-damn whether people get a warm fuzzy feeling when they see me.
Maybe someday they'll figure it out.
