I think what I've heard from you before has been mostly on the personal scale, i.e., "what's going to happen in my life, or my friends' lives is going to depend a lot on what actions they take and not on any large-scale changes." This was also back when you seemed to think large-scale social change was based off people making differences in their own lives and not top-down institutional changes (or at least, that is what I gathered). Which is why I felt like you had more of a bootstraps approach.
I suspect I was conflating "harsh criticism" with "insult" here, probably because of the whole politeness issue. In my defense, I think that the difference between the two is evident to the person doing the criticism or making the insult, but not necessarily evident to the person receiving it. Of course, I'm notoriously bad with criticism.
In any case, thanks for clarifying re: insults and respect and criticism.
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Date: 2010-05-31 07:12 pm (UTC)I suspect I was conflating "harsh criticism" with "insult" here, probably because of the whole politeness issue. In my defense, I think that the difference between the two is evident to the person doing the criticism or making the insult, but not necessarily evident to the person receiving it. Of course, I'm notoriously bad with criticism.
In any case, thanks for clarifying re: insults and respect and criticism.