Okay, I'm gonna need some help here.

[conuly]

It's like banging my head against a wall, but more painful. And if I'm going to keep wasting my time on this futile effort, I could at least get a little company there.

I mean, I'm not wrong, am I? My facts aren't wrong, are they? My thoughts aren't missing a crucial point, are they? This person IS being willfully annoying, right?

HELP ME OUT HERE I FEEL SO ALONE.

Also, I didn't know this as I don't really follow celebrity anything (I'm lucky if I know who a certain star IS, much less what they've done and why people care) or watch many movies or TV shows (I do watch TV, of course, but I seem to limit myself to three or four shows. If I add a new one, an old one inevitably drops off my list), but I'm realizing it now by looking at these pictures...

WOW does that girl look like her dad. Will Smith? HIS DAUGHTER LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM.

It's sorta creepy to look at, but I'm sure as she gets older it'll be more her face and less her dad as a young girl. (Kinda like a kid down her block who looks spookily like her grandmother... or she did at four. Creepy seeing a four year old who looks like a 50 year old woman, but now that she's 12 even though her face hasn't changed, it looks like HER instead of her grandma.)

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[conuly]

Alternatively, if you assume there is nothing, you won't see what's right there in front of you.

Now I really want to look into movie roles. That shouldn't be too hard, just time-consuming.

[dragonwolf]

Then don't assume anything, find out the real facts about why something is done the way it's done.

In the article you linked the other day about "colorblind" vs "value-diversity" teaching, the ambiguous example is a prime example of this (and, obviously, is precisely why it was the ambiguous test). The "value-diversity" people assume the person didn't invite the other because of racism, while the "colorblind" side didn't make that assumption. In a real life situation like that, as a third party, I would have confronted the person and asked them why they didn't invite the other. For all we know, it would have nothing to do with race and the kid that wasn't invited was just a jerk that the other didn't want around, but because the two have different colored skin, many people automatically jump to the conclusion that the one throwing the party was just being a racist bastard, which in a large number of cases, leads to them dismissing any explanation given to them by the party thrower, no matter how valid. In many conversations, once you're labeled a racist or xenophobe, no amount of anything will make the labelers see you as otherwise.