Comments by "Aaron Rosenberg" (@aaronrosenberg6633) on "Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile: How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village | TED" video.

  1. How cool this is. So many LGBTQ people have not only rural roots, but also industrial small-town roots and many other types of roots. Integrating our upbringings into our whole selves can sometimes be a challenge on many levels. Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile speaks to this with great eloquence.
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  2. TED has expanded on its topics. If something doesn't interest you, you're free to not watch it. That's all there is to it. Of course, sniveling about it is what you'd prefer. Carry on.
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  3. A desire to brag? Sounds like you decided you don't like the speaker, and based on that have made up some fictions about her.
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  4. Incorrect. The initial post made lots of assumptions. One is that Katlego is worried about having her feelings hurt (or that her feelings are hurt at all). Not sure where Potato was going with that in any case. The other is that Katlego is scorning her current reality. Nothing to show for that. Another is that her home country cannot learn to accept her. Progress comes slowly, but it comes. And the last is, of course, that Katlego embracing her roots is based in a desire to brag. Nothing to show for that. Proverbial Potato has a personal agenda. I don't know what it is, but my initial statement stands.
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  5. No kidding, huh? This is not even about sexual orientation. I'd even say that the transgender topic is less important than the idea of fully integrating one's past into one's present.
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  6. It could help a whole variety of people. There's a more universal message here. Dig a little.
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  7. So, you resort to mythology to justify inhumane behavior. You are unable to show anything for your god, despite millennia of desperate assertions. Your work is cut out for you. Until such a time as you can show that your god exists— and that he agrees with you—your behavior is lazy and cowardly.
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  8. Sweeping generalizations are meaningless. Taking pride in one's heritage and in oneself is a good thing when it's time to level the playing field. Where shame is instilled, pride compensates.
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  9. Everything is political. Many people can't reconcile their former lives with their present selves. Doing so takes some work and ultimately extremely enriching. If something doesn't interest you, pass it by. Stop sniveling.
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  10. Because nothing ever changes, right?
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  11. The minute you assert what "God" wants, you pretend that the work has already been accomplished on your behalf to show that your God actually exists. That work has never been accomplished. Stop being lazy.
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  12. Does labeling somebody contradictory to how you know they label themselves give you a feeling of power? I assure you, it is a pathetic tack, revealing of your own sense of powerlessness.
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  13. It's not a zero-sum game. This piece of ignorance is perpetuated repeatedly. Read TED's mission statement on their website. This talk was beneficial to me and I'm sure many others. Your personal reaction isn't a litmus for others.
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  14. "Nobody is saying it's a zero sum game." You are: "At least talk about LGBTQ rights or charity or something" Zero-sum game: a situation in which one person or group can win something only by causing another person or group to lose it. Dividing up the budget is a zero-sum game. You are implying that by focusing on her topic, she is taking away from "LGBTQ rights or charity or something." "Even with research you need to prove beneficence of a hypothesis." How does this mean anything in the context of this dialogue? "I also agree with the TED motto. But the talk failed to state any idea." Here are a few for you, in case you missed them: • It's possible to build bridges between past and present identities. • In doing so, she can spread a message of hope to the "others who don't belong" in her homeland that they are not alone. • She can joyfully reconcile her rural roots—including pride of ancestry/homeland/native tongue—with her queer identity. "Rather it was all about how she chose to do nothing different but be herself." Being herself in the above sense is indeed very different for her. Did you miss the part about "what got lost" both in translation and in transition? This is how she's changed. "She deserves a blog perhaps..not the TED platform." Yeah, not your place to decide, thankfully. Different people benefit differently, if at all, from different TED talks. There's a tendency for folks like you to complain about it when you feel you don't benefit, rather than simply bypassing it. "No articulation what so ever just eloquent tip toeing around the topic of being transgender and tribal." Good think I did your homework for you. Next time, do your own work, or perhaps just skip the video. I've a feeling that there's something more to this that you're not sharing, but we obviously can't know what that is. "All I am saying is take your damn topic and idea and make simpletons like me understand how this benefits any other person in society" Lots of people have major challenges reconciling their various identities into a healthy whole, whether those identities co-exist or are more separated by time and space. It can be done, though. For those with such a challenge, this video can be very helpful. For you, maybe not so much. That's no reason to complain.
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  15. You have no point. Hush.
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  16. What about it?
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  17. "I'm not implying anything for the LGBTQ community based on her topic." Nor did I say you were. You do seem to be complaining into the void about something, though. "Sorry stopped taking your "breakdown" after that seriously.." You'll have to point out to me where "that" is, since I can't find it anywhere in my response. "If you do not understand something when I put it in an hypothesis framework, dont try to argue with it." Let me turn the tables right back around for you: If you do not understand a video's message, don't draw false conclusions and then complain that "this talk was literally nothing..no beneficence to society" while posing a red herring. "If your feelings are hurt because I didn't like this talk, cant help you." We both know my feelings aren't hurt. Your initial post, however, would indicate that yours are. "Arguing with me isn't magically going to make her topic any relevant." If, after gaining understanding of the topic, it's still irrelevant to you, remember - it's just irrelevant to you (which is kind of a shame, but whatever). If you'd rather not have the cauliflower, don't eat it. Don't whine when others do. "The logical fallacy that you choose to argue on that there must be something wrong with me for me to find this topic uninteresting or idea as irrelevant makes me wonder about your argumentative and debating skills. Personal attacks won't get you anywhere." I don't think there's anything wrong with you to find this topic uninteresting (that is, assuming you understood it). I indeed think there's something wrong with reacting disdainfully (as you did) because of that. "Yes, read my response. I didn't have to accuse you of anything to counter your point. That's how adults argue." I'm sorry, but you didn't counter anything. This is one reason why I do "breakdowns." It may seem tedious, but it's a way to address ideas one by one. You explaining how "adults argue" is rather ironic. "If you are proud of your scholastic aptitude it will explain your responses to every comment on this video--> See what I did there? Accusing someone of something needs evidence. Just because I hurt your feelings by not liking this video doesnt give you a default higher moral ground." Predicating anything on "hurting my feelings" is a straw man fallacy. My conclusion was "that there's something more to this that you're not sharing, but we obviously can't know what that is." How's that for adult? And it's shown by your next comment.... "This video is crap according to some people..you also dont have to be against LGBTQ to not like it." Every video is crap to some people. Cauliflower taste like crap to some people. But they only need abstain from eating it and giving dirty looks to those who do. "I have always been for gay rights and always will be." Huzzah! "So yeah..bye. Ego driven arguing on social media is bad- learn to respect opinions and maybe someone will respect you." I'm not seeking your respect, Spanky. And not all opinions are deserving of equal respect, as they are definitely not all created equal. "And by the way. The way you're desperately trying to comment on this video to everyone actually points to the fact that you are the one that thinks this is a zero sum game." Desperately trying? No, sorry. Just addressing similar ignorance to yours, and with some amount of satisfaction. Perhaps the desperation is yours, then? You must be projecting. Lastly, you are apparently unaware of what I mean by a "zero-sum game." You ought to stop attempting this table-turning. It's not working for you.
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  18. TED's missions statement is pretty inclusive. If you feel like sniveling, try to just stay away. Nobody needs your whining.
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  19. Pathological? Oh! That's the term people use when they don't understand somebody different from them.
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  20. "People usually have something more important to care about, such as taxes, their job, their family, their hobbies." That's the logical fallacy of the red herring. Look it up. It's not a zero-sum game. "Normal people, who represent the majority of people on Earth, won't care about these things and it's time to accept it." Right-handed people are also "normal," yet equipment is made especially for left-handed dentists. Pretending "normal" means "better" is your tack, and in fact, it just means boring. Take pride in it, though, if you want to. The majority of people on Earth have come to realize that, being boring, diversity is pretty cool, and so they support it. Continued progress, however slow, testifies to this.
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  21. What an ignorant comment. She said nothing about who she sleeps with. You're really lost on this whole issue, aren't you? Your comment is apropos of nothing.
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  22. Taking hubris in one's personal disgust goes exactly how far? It's the tack of a small child. It holds no rhetorical clout in any direction. Have you got anything intelligent to say?
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  23. Good riddance.
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  24. Comments becoming a platform for whiners to watch videos that don't interest them and then sniveling that it didn't appeal to them.
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  25. @The OG Boyz In Da Hood You've mistaken your opinion for a fact. I notice people do that when they're intellectually bankrupt.
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  26. Big words? 🤣← Me laugh! I notice you're a white supremacist. It's unfortunate when people lose their humanity, the highest possible calling. I can only imagine your sad life.
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  27. Bye!
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