Delicate Offers a Truce

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You act like what you're "doing" is a gift, that we don't deserve.

That's your problem, you perceive yourself as holding some higher value over others in what you say. Every time you post, it always has to has this arrogant, righteous tone to it, that somehow we are all supposed to hold your words with the utmost respect.

I'll forgive anyone, I posted a MLK quote earlier that I stand by, hate can't drive hate out, only love can do that.

However, to be blunt, you haven't done shit. Stop acting like you've made this colossal change, and it's our fault for not seeing it. The fact that you respond with such hostility to someone who simply wants you to put words to action, just proves how self-entitled you see yourself, how dare anyone disagree, they must be wrong!

Your failure to stand by your words only lowers the amount of respect people will have for them. Which subsequently heightens your backlash and denial, constantly insisting that the lack of respect is nothing to do with anything you've personally said.


You've framed a thread that could be encouragement as a platform in which everyone's against you, hyper-focusing in on anyone who disagree's with you in the smallest amount, lacking the maturity to put your words to action and prove the people who question your motives wrong you instead decide to engage with every one of them before ever showing the change you promised in the first place. Empty promises. You lack self-awareness. That's this thread's downfall.

I appreciate the attempt at honest feedback.

And frankly I've more than out my words into action. I've responded evenhandedly to dozens of deeply offensive and uncharitable posts, in this thread and elsewhere.

And if you're going to tell me to put my words into action, you're going to have to recognize that it's already happened to a large degree.

That fact that you fail to notice this, I think, is a weakness of your response.

Putting words to action isn't to keep reinforcing this change by repetitively telling people you're going to change.

The fact that you think just by responding to people you have somehow demonstrated this action you speak of shows how little of a "change" you had in mind while originally making this thread.

A person who is going to change doesn't need to keep repeating this claim, they just do it.

It's almost laughable for you to classify just by posting on this thread, as a "Large Degree of change".

The funniest part, to me, is that even if just posting on the thread you made claiming to change, was evidence enough that you had in fact decided to act differently, then we've already established on this thread alone that you have not changed.


Oh my god you responded to people in disagreement? Did you really!? You poor thing, that must have been hard, how did you make it through considering the position of someone who doesn't agree? Wow, I can tell you've REALLY made a big change. Not only did you respond to people who didn't believe you, but you also responded to people who didn't believe you! Must have taken a lot of effort, time, and energy.