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Tuesday Night Jam: Nick Johnston, "Weakened by Winter"

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BlueGrl211/31/2017 8:44:45 pm PST

I’m tired tonight.

Got in a “debate” with a Breitbart-quoting dude on Facebook. Managed to lure him down the primrose path into proving he’s a bigot.

Guy goes off about entire regions of the world being nothing but Muslims that hate America. I explained I lived next door to a refugee family from Iraq and Syria and they’re amazing.

“Yeah, wait until those fucking Muslims kill you in your sleep.”

“Well, thing is, they’re Assyrian Christians. Oops.”

Then linked to the Webster’s definition of a bigot.

He chose to reduce himself to calling me a libtard at that point, to which I replied, “Yay! You’re reduced to libtard! I win!”

I thought this would all make me feel really good because this guy got ripped up on this and other topics he tried to deflect with. But the fact is it wasn’t a fair fight. I was trying to prove how much smarter and glib I am and score points on him. Yeah, I got out a lot of pent-up aggression but it was like playing a game with a 5 year old and celebrating my 50 point win.

I don’t know. Didn’t feel good to shame this guy in public. Didn’t like myself for it. Didn’t make anyone watching it feel anything but pity for the guy…or they piled on and turned on him too.

It’s time for me to put politics away for a few days and take up knitting.