Comments on: On Community

By: Elise @ Stuff That I Bought

Elise @ Stuff That I Bought — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:07:39 +0000

Ahahaha oh man. Just catching up on some old posts and this one is great Lau. But seriously, did some guy say that “you’ve shown no sign whatsoever of having critical thinking skills” and follow it up with a WINKY FACE and then say that you “exhibit many of the test signs of Downs Syndrome”?! You’re a bigger person than most for approving those comments.

I have always admired what a welcoming and generous bunch the Sydney food blogging community is.

By: Lau

Lau — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:51:17 +0000

And you sir have completely missed the point of my post by making such an irrelevant comment in the first place.

By: Steve at the Pub

Steve at the Pub — Tue, 22 May 2012 07:48:20 +0000

You have missed the point.

Lady, you’ve shown no sign whatsoever of having critical thinking skills (just an aside).

You do quite well actually, better than most. (Being as you exhibit many of the test signs of Downs Syndrome.) (i.e. unable to make rational thought connections).

By: Lau

Lau — Tue, 22 May 2012 06:18:04 +0000

“I always assume people who can write have the ability to think critically.” That’s what I’m doing, and yet you seem to take issue with that.

“You’re in a country that is predominantly anglo-saxon, yet this series of photos shows very few of them.” Ok, let’s say that really is what you mean. So what? I’m also in a country that is predominantly desert. Are you commenting on the fact that I’m not in a desert?

My point has nothing to do with noticing or not noticing the relative ‘chinese-ness’ of a group. I just question (you know, using my critical thinking skills and all) whether the ‘chinese-ness’ of that group has anything to do with…well, anything.

In this context, yes I think ‘Orientals’ is generally considered an outdated, disparaging term. We are not reading the classics here, ni estabamos hablando en espanol. ‘Oriental’ is a word used to describe a vase, not a person.

The reason I assume the people in my community must look different than the people in yours is that if they did, I doubt you’d think the ethnic makeup of the Sydney Food Blogging Community warrants comment. But that’s just an assumption. Maybe this could be the start of your PHD.

People aren’t vases. They aren’t hills. Commenting on someone’s ethnicity or appearance is not the same as commenting on a landscape.

I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

By: Steve at the Pub

Steve at the Pub — Tue, 22 May 2012 05:57:32 +0000

Hmm.. You’ve missed the point entirely. My apologies. I always assume people who can write have the ability to think critically.
Sometimes they don’t. My mistake!

Tip: Not everything is “heavy with messages” and hidden meanings. Often an observation like: You’re in a country that is predominantly anglo-saxon, yet this series of photos shows very few of them, means: well, means exactly that.

Sorry for not realising you are a deadly serious person caught up in some sort of uptight “thou must not notice chinese-looking people look, you know, chinese” frame of mind.

Sort of like having a series of photos taken at somewhere named “(something) Hills”, but without a hill in sight.

“Orientals” is a disparaging term? Erm… Que?? It is not only a spanish absorbtion into English, but it has been a word in the English language for a long time. I take it you don’t read classics?

You disagree that there are a heap of orientals in your photos? (Hmmm… this is how it reads anyway, hehe)

One thing makes me rather curious, what on earth gave you the idea that people in my community look different to the people in your photos?