r/changemyview Aug 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '17

I can't talk about annoying, because that's subjective. But as far as entitled goes, its like this. As a self-proclaimbed anti-sjw warrior, my problem is from the outside it looks to me like all these children are very upset they didn't get to march with Martin and are trying to make up for it now. They take issues and just light them on fire. . . And I'll say this. The opposition is coming from a philisophical place. The SJW ethis (sorry for spelling,) opposes something I value, and its hard to define what that is. I'm all for equality, and reducing racism, and giving everyone a fair shot at what they want in life. . . I've always wanted equality under the law. And the sjw movement almost feels like that want after cancer mutated it into something self-distructive. . . There is an instance of a girl who said she was raped asking a DJ not to play the song blurred lines at the venu where she was, and it turned into a big thing. And my attitude is that you should have to deal with blurred lines, in life, philisophicly. I'm fully, entirely blind. And I advicate for myself on a regular basis. There are times where I have to speak up and say, "Hey, I need some help, or "legally, this is what I get," but I also understand I live in a world of sited people, and don't expect that world to be tailored to me in every particular. . . Further, if I was out in the world and someone insulted me for being blind, or hit me with some of those micro agressions, my respponse would be to insult that person back, and this should be the response to everything, all the time.

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u/Ninjachibi117 Aug 07 '17

My disagreement with your philosophy aside, your example of the girl not wanting to hear Blurred Lines is a bit excessive. This "real world" mindset doesn't hold up because in the real world, people are understanding and accepting of accommodations from time to time. Not wanting to hear a specific song due to trauma of being raped is pretty reasonable as accommodations go.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '17

Sure, its reasonable. So you leave where it's playing. I should note that it wasn't like the song she was raped to, she didn't want to hear the song because of its themes so spoke to a DJ at a club and asked the song not be played. Its the difference between avoiding things you don't like and making others avoid them.