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.)

Comments

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"Connie, you're not arguing with this idiot over whether you're right, but whether you have a right -- to your opinion, to take the issue seriously."

Word. Precisely. And how silly is that, to be arguing with some random stranger online as to whether or not one has a right to your opinion? Is one's right to have an opinion going to be revoked by the Opinion Police if a certain percentage of Internet users disagree with it, or say one has no right to hold it? Obviously not.

Note that my opinion doesn't revoke anybody else's right to consider this a Very Serious Matter Indeed, a mortal insult and total discounting of one's basic personhood to be told that the issues one considers important are not necessarily considered important by everyone else on the planet. But, by the same token, the fact that other people consider an issue to be important does not revoke my right to hold the opinion that it isn't.

In any case, holding opinions counts for very little if one isn't going to do anything about them. Suppose it were possible to convince all these chatters and bloggers to agree with one's opinions; what would that accomplish? Arguing about issues online is a hobby, nothing more; people who are seriously trying to engender change address their communications to those with the power to make decisions, because those are the ones whose opinions actually matter.

In this particular example, only the opinions of those willing to write directly to the movie producers matter, because those are the only opinions that will have any bearing on what happens. Everybody else's opinion does not matter - whether they agree or disagree about white actors playing brown or black characters, if they aren't going to write, what they think will not count one way or the other.

Therefore, it's futile arguing with the unconvincable when convincing them would be of no use, and it's equally futile 'preaching to the choir' of already-convinced but unmotivated-to-act. People who really take an issue seriously don't argue about it; they act.