• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Are you seriously just going to dodge these accusations of Woods recording his distraught wife for his mistress’ amusement? Is there something you’re not telling us about your own cruel voyeurism?

    • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned from community
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      What? I’m not the one defending the guy here. I mused that giving a partner the silent treatment until they say the “correct” thing is unhealthy and you jumped down my throat to defend this cruel, drunk driving, cheating asshole.

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        No one is defending Tiger. They’re telling you your argument is flawed. Just because someone is a shitty person doesn’t give you blanket license to make every kind of strawman about them.

        That’s terrible logic, and resorting to “Oh, so you’re defending him?!!” any time someone disagrees with you is no more valid.

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        For what it’s worth, when I read into these texts I come away with them both being pretty much shitty.

        • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned from community
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          That was my read as well.

          I guess people are allowing their annoyance at me to justify defending shitty people like Tiger fucking Woods.

          But Lemmy doesn’t have a sexism problem lol

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            So we can make up anything we want about Tiger Woods, and no one can disagree because then they would be defending a cheater?

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              He’s an asshole in these texts. We’re just reading the situation differently.

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                “We’re just reading the situation differently.”

                I’ve noticed you use that as a cop-out a lot whenever someone calls out your flawed arguments.

                There’s “reading the situation differently” and there’s “blatantly fallacious logic being used to justify a moral pedestal.”

                After all the grandstanding you do while casting shame on anyone who disagrees with you, you don’t get to backtrack by saying “Oh, we’re just reading the situation differently.” No, there’s such thing as “You’re just wrong.”

                Being able to admit when you’ve been wrong is a strength, not a weakness. It’s okay to let go of your feelings of moral supremacy, they’re not serving you.

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                Personally, I’d say it’s more so the cheating that makes him an asshole rather than how he texts.

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                  Ah y’all have raked me over the coals quite a bit over this. Fine. Whatever lol defend this cheating jerk who can’t stop himself from endangering everyone by drinking and driving over and over again.

                  I’m sure his texting game is A+ and he totally just forgot to text or something. I don’t know why this image would then be circulated around for discussion, but whatever.

          • Elting@piefed.social
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            The people of Lemmy would like to believe they have an open mind but when you get down to it, they’re as open minded and progressive as any group of people online. You will get dog-piled here for “wrong-think” just as vehemently as you would on mainstream social media.

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              Fallacious arguments aren’t “wrong-think,” and waiting an hour before responding to a text isn’t “silent treatment.”

              Sometimes, a person is just wrong, and you don’t get to arbitrarily call people sexist just to defend a wrong position.

              Nobody here is defending Tiger’s behavior, they’re just saying waiting an hour between texts isn’t silent treatment.

              Critique him on any number of shitty behaviors, but not responding within an hour isn’t one.

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                This shit was posted because its two shitty celebrities who’s texts we can humorously read into. That you have reacted so makes me think you have some level of personal investment in not seeing that tiger woods is being shitty in these texts.

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                  Nope. Scroll up and read my first comment where I clearly state I’m not defending him because he’s a magat piece of shit (in addition to the DUIs and infidelity).

                  But just because someone is a bad person doesn’t mean you can make up whatever you want about him. That’s called an ad hominem, and is an obvious fallacy.

                  What I’m saying isn’t “actually I think Tiger’s behavior in general is okay.” What I’m saying is “It’s perfectly fine to not respond to a text within an hour, and focusing your ire on that is missing the point.”

                  People can take an hour or more to respond to a text. Just because Tiger’s a shitty person doesn’t mean waiting an hour to respond is what makes him shitty. Nazis ate food every day, does that mean everyone who eats food is a nazi?

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                    Its not so much the hour it took to respond for me but that she felt the need in the first place to placate him after making a joke. That indicates to me that she is used to him being pretty volitaile. Which checks out given that he is tiger woods.

            • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBanned from community
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              Thanks. Yeah I’ve gathered as much which is why I don’t let it bother me.

              I’ve been on the Internet long enough, probably longer than most of these guys who have a grudge against me, so I’m not surprised by the group think or that it would turn against a vocal woman easily.

              Appreciate you chiming in!

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                No one has a grudge against you, you just have a habit of making disingenuous arguments and then resorting to pedestal standing when people push back.

                You can’t just hide behind “I’m a woman, so you can’t disagree with me!” That clearly doesn’t work whenever a woman disagrees with you, as we’ve already seen before.

                Just because you’re wrong about something doesn’t mean everyone disagreeing with you is having “group think.” And it’s not sexist to disagree with you when you make a bad argument.