BT wrote:
Hahaha. So you were an unintelligent Steve Urkel?
Uh no. I could literally walk into any clique (the main ones) and fit right in. I just didn't bother to talk to them after school that much. I was friends with most of the basketball team, knew everyone at the top of the class and I had some friends in the band. I didn't even know many people in my class till I was a junior because most of my friends were upper classmen. In the advanced classes in high school, I wasn't really "the dumb one", it was more of a " a black guy?". My graduating class was over all stupid compared to the other classes.
In college, I was definitely the "dumb American". That's because, like normal people, I have to study in order to learn. When you are in a class where people don't take notes while correcting the teacher during a lesson and aces every test, you have to step up your game if you want the "smart" title. I was more concerned about graduating.
Barking Turtle wrote:
Yeah, I think that's interesting, too. I was just talking to my wife the other day about how I can call you anything, just short of the "n" word, I'd imagine, and you've created so much ill-will that no one even mentions I'm being a racist douche. Alma, these people are Liberals, by and large, and they really are bothered by racism and injustice, and you are so annoying they would just watch while I tied you to my bumper and dragged you around till you were just burger and cornrows and sickle-cells all across the horizon. They might even cheer.
It's crazy.
Gbaji hit it on the spot. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean that their argument is flawed or incorrect. In many cases, there is no "right" or "wrong" answer, i.e the topic on abortion, capital punishment, gun control, etc. The two sides can argue all day and night and the result will always conclude to being just an opinion. As a result, it is silly to resort to insulting others because they don't agree with you.
This site does exactly that. Instead of accepting the fact that we don't agree, they insult and provoke conversation but at the same time don't want any responses. People like the fact that I oppose them because that gives them a chance to debate, but quickly grow frustrated when I don't give in.
I'm sure by now, I'm somebody's guilty pleasure on this forum. I'm sure there was somebody secretly rooting for me as I manipulated you out of pure troll mode into the discussion where comprehension and logic was necessary to survive. Of course out of your comfort zone, the discussion became more troll than logic, but I must also accept the fact that some people don't have the ability to utilize such skills, especially all at once.