Violet, if you're around... can we talk about this?

Re: Violet, if you're around... can we talk about this?

• broccolitree

  October 2011

  Violet_McPurpleson:

  Here are the whomp whomp comments, and I knew they would come. I wasn't making generalities on all deaf/blind people, and the dyslexic comment doesn't even make sense.  I was saying that this one remarkable story has never added up to me. Not that people who learn differently can't learn.
  

  I am dyslexic btw. Spent 1-3 grade in a special dyslexia program. This was never a rant on the learning disabled, you read that part in yourself.

  just trollin.  y so srs?
  

  

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• Violet_McPurpleson

  October 2011

  imoan:

  Violet... you have to stop trying to convince everyone that you totally just wanted to rile people up and that we all fell for it.  The Facebook screenshot is just... sad.

   

  You're right, I really hate Helen Keller, and I want everyone else to as well. That makes much more sense.

  
  

  

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• imoan member

  

  October 2011

  Any delusion I had that Violet was a partially intellectual woman just went flying out the window with this whole thread and her subsequent "gotcha!" comments. 

  
  Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

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• Violet_McPurpleson

  October 2011

  I was just being silly, and things have turned ugly. I tried to explain and things just keep getting worse. I don't know what you people want from me, so I'm out.
  

  

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• GBCK member

  

  October 2011

  Violet_McPurpleson:

  I was just being silly, and things have turned ugly. I tried to explain and things just keep getting worse. I don't know what you people want from me, so I'm out.
  

  Can't speak for what anyone else wants, but personally, I think an acknowledgement that the 'joke' was in poor taste would be helpful.  That you claim, basically,  "I wasn't saying they can't LEARN, just that they can't learn THAT MUCH' isn't really something 'ha ha' funny.  And I know, I don't have to like your sense of humor, whatev.  But the fact that you think playing w/ those prejudices and stereotypes is funny is distasteful

  I think it would clear the air too if you were ACTUALLY posting what you think--because you at one moment say 'it was a joke' and the next say 'but really, isn't it unbelievable?' 

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• imoan member

  

  October 2011

  You weren't being silly.  You were being serious and then backtracked the moment you realized that nobody thought it was cute or quirky, they though you were a stone cold azzhole.  Just admit it, own it and  move on.  This is just getting pathetic.

  
  Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

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• Violet_McPurpleson

  October 2011

  It wasn't really a joke, I certainly wasn't trying to poke fun at the deaf/blind. I just wasn't being entirely serious and the post was supposed to be lighthearted and ridiculous. It was in poor taste and I apologize.
  

  I have thought that her story was pretty unbelievable, but like I said, I don't know a lot about her, or her life. I've never researched her (besides a quick google search last night) and I certainly don't know enough about her to really think she's a fraud (I got that stuff from the google search).
  

  The only thing that was supposed to be a funny was how ridiculous 'I don't believe in Helen Keller" is and the inevitable fallout.

  I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I wasn't trying to say "gotcha" either. I was trying to show that I wasn't being serious, and it just snowballed. 
  

  

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• Violet_McPurpleson

  October 2011

  imoan:

  You weren't being silly.  You were being serious and then backtracked the moment you realized that nobody thought it was cute or quirky, they though you were a stone cold azzhole.  Just admit it, own it and  move on.  This is just getting pathetic.

  There is nothing I can do to change your mind, but this really isn't what I was doing.
  

  

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