4:11pm August 21, 2014

“…when they’re apparently not even trying to understand what I am even talking about, just reacting to certain keywords and seeing what they’re expecting to see—based on that exact oversimplification of history.”

clatterbane

And this is exactly why I have trouble talking about certain subjects on tumblr.  The subject I’ve been asked to apologize over (“asked” is maybe not strong enough a word, the idea that I should apologize was implicit in the language used) is one where it’s exactly that, a keyword thing, not an understanding of what I meant.  And I do want to write what I actually meant, one day, but that will be on my own terms, and I still expect people to go to a keyword and assume they know what I’m thinking, and stop thinking the moment they hit the wrong keyword.

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