You know what happens here, when you come in with a viewpoint that opposes the majority? Ask Tanoomba.
I made some pretty measured posts early on in the Zimmerman thing, saying things like that I didn't think there was enough evidence to convict him but that I also don't think he was blameless in a moral sense, and got jumped all over.
A lot of that thread has been a racist circlejerk, but mods refuse to take action because no one's actually saying the N-word. I think you can put together the rest.
No, that's really not true. You can come in with a contrary opinion and get shouted the fuck down. But if you support that opinion, and engage in discussion, rather than using a feelsdata crutch the majority will back off.
I did the exact same thing with Zimmerman, except I started even further away than you did. I questioned not only his moral culpability but his legal one as well. I was fairly convinced for an appreciable while that what he was guilty of was manslaughter rather than murder... and through the discussion which followed my opinion did change. Not because of peer pressure, but because of the discussion itself. Because I actually took part in that discussion and was willing to consider opinions other than my own I managed to fuckin' learn something.
Raising up Tanoomba as some example of the tyranny of the majority. Do you think we're all high school girls or something? We don't pick on Mist because she's stupid. We pick on Mist when she says stupid things. We all say stupid fucking things, Duppin, and we all pick on each other for it when it happens. Because it's fuckin funny, that's why. This is not the only difference but it is an important difference. Mist gives as good as she gets. Tanoomba is seriously incapable of it. He genuinely does not understand what the fuck is going on. We do pick on him because he is, sincerely, just fucking stupid. Some people just are, man.
What the fuck do you expect to happen when all you contribute is, "racist circlejerk"? And then in a tantrum of self-martyrdom start dropping American InventorAmerican InventorAmerican Inventor like it's some sort of cryptic, ironic, hipster fucking point that you're making. And that's it. That's the entire contribution. Complaining for the sake of complaining. Either play the game or go the fuck home.
No one owes you a pat on the head telling you what a kind, gentle boy you are. It does not fucking impress anyone when you play the vainglorious martyr.
You don't always. And that's why you don't always get shit on. Every now and then you actually do have a good point nuggeted down in the bullshit. If this is one of those times then just fucking make it and stop trying to impress imaginary people with how sensitive you are.