Kirbyoto t1_is5ucbs wrote on October 13, 2022 at 2:56 PM

Reply to comment by New-Vegetable-1274 in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

>I was pointing out the tiresome tilting at windmills that virtue signaling is. Don't you think that renaming a street in the name of social justice is a bit of a stretch? I can think of a million more things that are actually important that mostly get lip service.

Complaining about them renaming a street is just as stupid as fighting for the street to be renamed. Caring about this in any capacity is equally pointless. You can't talk about "tilting at windmills" when this is the kind of shit you get mad about.

>At the moment we are dealing with historic inflation and are headed into a bitter winter. The homeless are in a perpetual struggle and these two things will effect them more than any other segment of the population this year. I don't think Plantation St is on their list of things to worry about.

And yet it's on YOUR list of things to worry about, because you're here on the internet complaining about it instead of helping homeless people. So explain to me why it's different and why you don't have any obligation to spend your time wisely. I guarantee you have spent exactly as much time thinking about this as the UMASS personnel who submitted the proposal to city hall - which, by the way, was voted down anyways.

New-Vegetable-1274 t1_is8q5sx wrote on October 14, 2022 at 2:50 AM

I was born and raised in Worcester but no longer live there but am appalled by the number of homeless there. I have a New Years ritual, every January I visit the Second Chance Animal Shelters and make a donation then trek to Worcester to Abby's House and Catholic Charities and donate at both. I wish I could do more but I'm retired and on a fixed income.

Kirbyoto t1_isb835g wrote on October 14, 2022 at 5:11 PM

That's very nice of you. It also, again, has basically nothing to do with the topic at hand. UMASS was not choosing between "proposing a street name change" and "doing charity".

New-Vegetable-1274 t1_isck5v7 wrote on October 14, 2022 at 10:38 PM

You said that I ought to be doing something about homelessness, I am, whereas some feel good BS renaming a street accomplishes what? So much oxygen is wasted on the whole woke thing. I agree with a lot of the issues but see what's actually being done as empty rhetoric. If it were something truly racist and offensive rather than a semantic dust up, who could argue with that? I wouldn't but I have to question UMASS's motives, capiche?

Kirbyoto t1_iscnf8n wrote on October 14, 2022 at 11:03 PM

>You said that I ought to be doing something about homelessness, I am

I said "you're here on the internet complaining about it instead of helping homeless people", which is still true. The fact that you take some time out of your life to help homeless people is very admirable, but it doesn't take up 100% of your time. You have time to do other things, just like people at UMASS do. So if you accept that you're allowed to have time to do things besides help homeless people, guess what? So are they.

>So much oxygen is wasted on the whole woke thing

You're wasting it too! This is my point. You complain about "wasting time" but you are also wasting time in the exact same way. You could be helping homeless people right now, but you aren't. You're too busy wasting oxygen. People who post on Reddit frankly forfeit the right to use terms like "waste of time" because none of us actually care about our time.

>If it were something truly racist and offensive rather than a semantic dust up, who could argue with that?

Dude if it was the fucking Ku Klux Klan Boulevard guys like you would still be complaining about how it's "woke posturing" to try to change the name and how difficult it would be for the inhabitants of KKK Blvd to change their address labels.

New-Vegetable-1274 t1_isddr13 wrote on October 15, 2022 at 2:36 AM

KKK guys like me? Nice. Well at least it confirms what kind of guy you are. " Ku Klux Klan Boulevard guys like you" tells me all I need to know about you.

Kirbyoto t1_isewfhu wrote on October 15, 2022 at 1:25 PM

>KKK guys like me?

No, guys who only pretend to care about street names when those street names happen to represent any sort of conservative history. There would always be an excuse. The arguments you used to defend "Plantation St" would be used to defend any other sort of conservative street name too.

>Well at least it confirms what kind of guy you are.

I'm a guy who can recognize patterns, and in this case the pattern is that people only came out of the woodwork to care about a city issue when they detected the smell of "wokeness". You don't really care about anything else you're saying, you just see "wokeness" and you want it removed. You don't give a shit about wasted oxygen or helping the homeless or whatever. "I help the homeless once a year, therefore UMASS shouldn't be allowed to change a street name" is a hilariously incomprehensible statement and yet it is effectively the real argument you made in this discussion.