• DillonBrooksEnjoyer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For the majority of Americans, as long as you are a pleasant person, you will have pleasant conversations, even if it’s about a disagreement.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      A. This leads to politeness fetishists and tone policing. If someone says something offensive like “we should remove LGBT+ books from schools,” I’d rather shoot myself than speak nicely to that person.

      B. This has not been my experience with my fellow Americans at all. I even saw a mod from lemmy.world post mod-flaired horseshit in their politics community about how “The US is not a racist country.” Fuck that.

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      Hi from the autistic guy that is physically unable to understand the rules of „politeness“ and burns out while pathetically trying to mimic them just to look like a creep anyway.

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      1 year ago

      How can we have a pleasant conversation about the murders the American soldiers are committing in the Middle East? How does one be pleasant about murder?