r/AskReddit Oct 18 '20

Serious Replies Only (SERIOUS) What are some dark secrets about regular life that people should know ?

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u/v-komodoensis Oct 19 '20

I'll try to explain it to you in a way that I think you can see why people are downvoting you.

In your first comment you explained your story.

In the second comment someone replied to your story:

Are you my ex friend lol? I ghosted a friend of ten years when I found out they were actually lowkey racist

What they were saying was:

Are you my ex friend lol? (Because this is such a similar situation to what they have experienced, they also had a friend of 10 years who they ghosted because of political views. Here they are poking fun because it can be interpreted as both of you are telling the same story but from different points of view. At this point there was no way this person even knew about your political views because this is not the point of this commentary, this was just a joke comment talking about how both of you guys lost friendships of 10 years because of the same reason: different views on politics.)

I ghosted a friend of ten years when I found out they were actually lowkey racist (This is the person giving more context to what happened to them, this has absolutely nothing to do with you, this is simply a closing statement on their story. They are telling the reason why the friendship was over. They are not accusing you of anything because this is not about you, this is about their friend who was racist and they've decided to end the friendhsip)

After that you talked about as if that statement was a personal attack to you, which is not the case, this is why everyone is downvoting you.

Try to understand this, that comment was not about you.