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Bobkgin -> RE: How do Dominants keep "White Knight" syndrome in check? (10/4/2007 6:32:13 AM)
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ORIGINAL: camille65
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ORIGINAL: Bobkgin
What is so ironic about the "white knight" syndrome is how much attention and sympathy it generates for their target.
Bad enough seeing ten or fifteen people following a single individual, attacking him/her at every opportunity. We all tend to feel sympathy for such an individual as most of us have witnessed such "swarmings" in school yards.
Bad enough these ten or fifteen people must resort to the worst, and most obvious, forms of propaganda to make their 'point'.
Bad enough these ten or fifteen people attack every thread where their target appears, ruining the discussion for everyone else in their zeal to get their target.
Bad enough these ten or fifteen people contribute almost no on-topic material, if indeed they contribute any, while attacking a thread to get their target.
Bad enough these ten or fifteen people must flaunt their immaturity over and over again.
But because of their antics, they generate more traffic through their target's profile than he'd likely get any other way.
And what's worse, it is not at all infrequent that someone writes their target to compliment him on his profile.
One lady even said it was the best she'd read in the three years she'd been here.
Net result of "white knight" syndrome?
I leave the math to the audience at large.
Removing the personal angle, and the white knight angle your left with the complaint of a group of posters that continously repeat behaviour.
I agree with much of what was posted here. There are some posters that even without reading I can guess the gist of what they are posting. It can be tiresome and irritating but there is nothing I personally can do about it, so I usually stay silent on it.
Bob, you now fall into that catagory. Your views and stance do not change, you are unwilling or unable to accept anothers way of thinking/being.
I'd disagree with that last bit.
I've no trouble accepting that the way another thinks/lives is right for them. That doesn't make it right for me.
I've had many many years to work out what I believe, who I am, what I seek in life. I've just had over ten years of non-stop experience in the most intimate of relationships to learn and grow even further.
Life is a learning process, there is no end to it this side of the grave.
That doesn't mean changing one's opinion willy nilly just because a group of white knights have made it their mission in life to harass you.
There is that old adage: "If everyone jumps off a cliff, will you jump too?". I've never been prone to peer pressure, nor to the tactics of propaganda.
As long as these are the 'proofs' offered to change a position, they mean nothing to me.
Aswad, Submittous, Prop, and Prinsexx have done more to change my mind through civil and intelligent discussion than all the propaganda of the white knights, and thus will it ever be with me.
You would think those who claim superiority would have noticed this simple fact by now. It's been obvious for some time.
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