I’m still not really in the right frame of mind to write a well-thought out blog post to explicate the thoughts that led me to stop visiting Friendfeed for now.

Even people who claim to be very tolerant of diversity of thoughts have their limits, and I’m certainly no saint. Sometimes I will stumble upon someone’s idea that, in my worldview, sounds so patently insane and wrong as to be insulting to me. Usually, it’s not a problem because, frankly, the Internet is overpopulated by all sorts of trolls, morons, and people with severe mental illness, so the strategy of ignoring it and moving on with life is probably the sanest decision. The reason why this particular incident bothers me is that the offending idea comes from someone whose ideas I have generally found to be reasonable.

But you can’t really expect to agree with anyone all of the time.

The idea that sparked such rage inside of me, which I still seem to be unable to let go of, is the idea that incorrectly saying that something someone said, or that something someone did is racist is exactly the same as calling a person-of-color a racial slur.

The absurdity of this is so self-evident to me that I was frankly completely insulted that someone who I thought was fairly reasonable could come up with such a cockamamie idea. At this point I’m really not ready to deconstruct the idea with any sort of rationality and even-temper, so I’m just going to leave it at that.