In the Pink

Am I being over-sensitive?

Or would you hate it if someone accused you of trying to claim that the Holocaust was the fault of the Jews?

Yeah, I thought so.

I did something ill-thought-out this week.

I took a post of mine, this one, and put it up on Fetlife in the Rants group. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but I had forgotten that it had originally been written from a very personal point of view, as a result of something specific happening -- for an audience of people who come to my blog to read the nonsense that I specifically write.

The reaction was not what I expected it to be, which will just teach me to re-use a post, lazy pink tabby that I am. Most people reading it did not get it, and commented accordingly. Unlike those who read it here, the majority of whom *did* get it, having been witness to the events that precipitated the piece in the first place.

Now, please understand -- I am not a shy and retiring wallflower. I'm always happy to receive and accept criticism. I believe I can hold my own in discussion, I will acede to points that are correct, despite my fervently wishing that they weren't, and I will passionately defend points of view that I believe to be correct, or that are my own truth. I don't need people to fight my battles for me, and I'm not scared of dealing with things.

Not any more, anyhow.

There are also times when I will not engage with a person, when I feel that to do so will give their pathetic and ridiculous argument legs.

Such a thing happened to me today.

To this second-hand rant, I received a personal comment, sent to me by private messagewhich said that in my sentence "I'm a proud Jew, but karma's a bitch", I was in fact implying that all the blame of the holocaust lay at the feet of the Jewish people.

I was so upset, I immediately blocked the person who wrote to me -- and on Fetlife, that also means deleting the correspondence that has happened up until that moment. I therefore have no proof of what happened -- although god knows I don't need any.

Another of my less fine hours.

My meaning behind that particular sentence had been a play on the fact that karma was a concept of Hindu origin, and that I am a Jew.

I therefore ask the question -- where the fuck does the Holocaust come into it? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Am I being too sensitive? How would you feel if that or a similar accusation were levelled at you?

The question is mildly hypothetical. What's done is done. The rant is still up and I'm not even trying to have it pulled, although I freely concede that re-posting the piece there as a rant was not my most intelligent decision.

I just needed to write about it.

Thanks for listening.