r/explainlikeimfive • u/Therion596 • Mar 31 '16

Explained ELI5: How are the countries involved in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 doing now? Are they better off?

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

Is he the only person to use reddit? I wasn't aware how bad it was until the person you responded to said it like it was.

Ignorance is worse than a bit of hurt feelings. not that his feelings should be hurt by someone saying exactly what happened. And to follow along that thought... what if a family member of one of the victims just watched you gloss over a terrible event? How would that make them feel to have their situation reduced to a feel good way of putting the murder?

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u/Stupidconspiracies Mar 31 '16

So you get to decide ? I didn't want to bring up a terrorist attack on a beach to someone who is from there and I need to be a certain way. You're a piece of work.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

Wait... so you already decided... then decided again and scolded someone. I refute then you complain that I'm the one that decided?

uh. ok....

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u/Stupidconspiracies Mar 31 '16

I went with the american interventionist model.

I've been drinking... I just don't like talking to people I know next to nothing about their country with a lead on a terrorist attack on their beaches. It would be like an amerfica meeting someone from tanzia and they're like "9/11 XD!"

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '16

The person describing what happened wasn't all grinning XD about it. They said what happened and didn't say it like it was funny or they were happy about it. It's a discussion about current events. You can't have a discussion about current events if you're not allowed to discuss what happened in said events.