WisconsinMan82 wrote: ↑September 23rd, 2020, 6:16 am
1. You weren't there. You don't know what happened, and you can't just assume things happened in a certain way just because of your preconceived notions about all people of a certain nationality.
I can assume it, it might not make my assumption true but nor do your claims can be proven - we will just have to leave it at that. I don't believe you, you need to grow a thicker skin if you want to live as a an expat, opinionated people end up with red faces all the time - your stated opinions will get challenged all the time. Ask me why when you unblock me.
2. To reiterate, I do not enjoy getting into political arguments with other people. I know I was feeling uncomfortable during this interaction, and I'm sure anybody else who overheard it got uncomfortable listening to it too.
I bet you don't - you could have just said, like I would have done 'oh well, that's your opinion' and left it at that but you went hammer and tongs, oh hang, introverted German girl
made you.
3. 15-year-olds are not children. 18-year-olds, such as me now, are not children. I'm not saying that your average 15-year-old is equivalent to a 40-year-old adult, but the vast majority of 15-year-olds have begun puberty and are thus no longer children in the technical, scientific sense; they are adolescents, in between childhood and adulthood.
You're a child if you act like a child, some 40 year olds here in China are absolute children.
4. On that note, you can't just dismiss someone's arguments on account of the age of the person making them. That's another classic example of an ad hominem. I also don't appreciate being called things like "son" and "child", especially considering that in relation to you I am neither, and I don't even know how old you are to begin with; for all I know and care, you could be 24 calling me those things to try to sound tough.
I could be 24 but I am not. I can dismiss someones arguments based on prior knowledge of certain ethnic groups and their behaviours - I am sure there are argumentative albeit introverted German teenagers but you sure are an opinionated young man with many opinions on many things - are you not? Your posting history suggests this.
5. I'm getting the sense that you don't like Trump. Fair enough, but his supporters are not all bad people and don't deserve to be painted with the same broad brush.
I couldn't give two shits about him to be honest though I would rather he wasn't in power this time next year, if he is, so be it.
6. I'm also getting the sense that we actually agree on a lot more than we're letting on simply because we think the other is more different in thought pattern here than is actually the case. For example, we both agree that it's uncouth to start banging on about politics around people you barely know.
Maybe, maybe not.
7. Welcome to my foe/ignore list.
Good!
