Date: 7 Jun 2009 06:43 pm (UTC)
snippy: Lego me holding book (0)
From: [personal profile] snippy
When the discussion shifts from the subject of rape in society to the fact that somebody has a feeling that differs, then yes, it's derailing. And they haven't only been posting it in their own LJs, some of the same people have commented in other LJs with the same comments.

Of course they have the right to derail in their own journals, to make it be about them--that's the point of my journal anyway, a place where I can make it be about me instead of whatever the subject was. I've done it, and been called on it, and defended my right to do it in my own journal. To little avail: my friends were still hurt by what I'd said.

Going off on a tangent is one of the best things about conversation, but it is kind of by definition derailing the original conversation.
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