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I wrote a comment on a quote today, and as soon as I posted it, I realized it could be considered really offensive 
. I looked back through some threads to see if there's a way to go back to the quote, but it looks like the answer is no. Basically, my comment could be interpreted as meaning that I think Russian people don't use good English grammar. I've known people from Russia--not a lot, but a few--and have never had any reason to complain about their communication skills. I said "Russians" as shorthand when what I really meant was agents acting on behalf of the Russian intelligence service posting on social media. So this message has two purposes--to let people know that I didn't mean it that way (I realize that not everyone who reads the comment will read this, but what else could I do? I was thinking of just solving cryptos nonstop until I get the same quote again, but that could take years), and to wonder if maybe the admin could find it in his heart to do me a very huge, special favor and remove the comment (admin, it was on a quote by Charles Simmons if that helps).
I'd also like to try and express what I really wanted to say in my comment, and hopefully can say more coherently now: (we) Americans are suffering from an onslaught of misinformation that's divisive in nature, and certainly some of it is coming from other Americans who lie on the extremes, or who suffer from a lack of information, or haven't processed the information they have, but some of it was introduced strategically by agents of a foreign power whose goal was to increase anger, hatred, and distrust among us. So when we respond to misinformation with divisive comments against each other, and don't acknowledge that an outside force was involved, it's kind of ironic. Obviously, the gaps were there before the influencers, but they've gotten worse, and there's nobody left but us to make it better.
Maybe it sounds preachy, but it's kind of like if everyone in the office was arguing all morning, and then someone came in and admitted that they put mean pills in the coffee as a social experiment, but no one was willing to drop their arguments.
But for the comment, again, I apologize.
. I looked back through some threads to see if there's a way to go back to the quote, but it looks like the answer is no. Basically, my comment could be interpreted as meaning that I think Russian people don't use good English grammar. I've known people from Russia--not a lot, but a few--and have never had any reason to complain about their communication skills. I said "Russians" as shorthand when what I really meant was agents acting on behalf of the Russian intelligence service posting on social media. So this message has two purposes--to let people know that I didn't mean it that way (I realize that not everyone who reads the comment will read this, but what else could I do? I was thinking of just solving cryptos nonstop until I get the same quote again, but that could take years), and to wonder if maybe the admin could find it in his heart to do me a very huge, special favor and remove the comment (admin, it was on a quote by Charles Simmons if that helps). I'd also like to try and express what I really wanted to say in my comment, and hopefully can say more coherently now: (we) Americans are suffering from an onslaught of misinformation that's divisive in nature, and certainly some of it is coming from other Americans who lie on the extremes, or who suffer from a lack of information, or haven't processed the information they have, but some of it was introduced strategically by agents of a foreign power whose goal was to increase anger, hatred, and distrust among us. So when we respond to misinformation with divisive comments against each other, and don't acknowledge that an outside force was involved, it's kind of ironic. Obviously, the gaps were there before the influencers, but they've gotten worse, and there's nobody left but us to make it better.
Maybe it sounds preachy, but it's kind of like if everyone in the office was arguing all morning, and then someone came in and admitted that they put mean pills in the coffee as a social experiment, but no one was willing to drop their arguments.
But for the comment, again, I apologize.
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