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Simon Orr

14

May 00:05

My Confession

Ok, I just got home from my friend Tyler's birthday dinner at Outback (australian/american restaurant) in Birmingham and I feel awful. Not because of the food (pretty good) or drink (I drank only coke, a lot though!) but because I really offended someone who I only just met. She asked a couple of times during the meal why some people jokingly referred to me as a facist and she unfortunately bore the brunt of my tactless illiberalism herself that very night.

I'm hoping that my writing down what happened, I'll be able to rationalise and deal with it better, and it will have a beneficial effect on my own mental state. Maybe I'll even get some comments on how bad I really was.

Ok here goes. Somehow we got onto the topic of modern art, and I stated how much I hated the Turner Prize as it seemed to always give the award to the piece which would create the most media hype (about how stupid the winner was) not the award with the most artistic merit. The following details of our conversation weren't particularly relevant but it ended up with her saying "Well shouldn't you be saying that in your opinion the prize is bad not just stating that the prize is bad". I then replied to the effect that "Well I believe that my opinion is right, if I believed all opinions are equally valid then I don't really hold an opinion at all do I?". I then continued to justify my reasoning but I think she took it very personally as she took the opposite 'opinion' to me on modern art and I assume she saw my comment as being personal to her. I can see how what I said could be taking to be very insulting to certain people (i assume she is one of them) and now I feel totally awful about it as I'm not sure I'm going to be able to see her again to apologise to her (which I now really want to do). I think I made it worse trying to justify what I said to her later when really I should have just apologised straight out.

Hmm, I think I do feel better after writing down. Anyone have any opinions on whether what I said was offensive/unreasonable?

Simo(n)
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