I think he has emotional defensive side - he has tendency to takes arguments personally - a different opinion as an attack to his knowledge and his hard core beliefs.
And, he ends up labelling people or telling them they know nothing and thus come across as arrogant/authoritarian.
No. It was not personnal. It's was both a defensive tactic and a political strategy. I explained that in the thread I just made.
I never took anything really personnaly here, even when multiple people were insulting my mental health. I went on this forum with a glass screen in front of me to protect myself. I knew from the start (even before joining) how the people would react to the behavior as it is how I have always faced hatred and toxicity on the internet.
I only thought that I would be able to reason One Piece fans with logic. But I was wrong. So this tactic is a bit useless now. And I know for a fact that gentleness will not help. I tried that tactic many time in different places. It's useless.
The reality is that our confirmation bias and the halo effect are b*tches.
If you know someone good, they will have a lot more chances to convince you. On the other hand, if someone you don't know or have no reason to respect starts to say something you disagree with, you will start to apply your disagreement on the nature of the person and confuse the two.
This means that unless you are very nice, it's almost impossible for someone to convince an unknown individual. Now, the problem here arrives when we talk about oppressions...
In the context of someone enabling an act of oppression, someone like me who fight them daily can't simply be respectful of the opinion of the other person. It's not fair to ask me that, I can't simply risk the danger of the words of someone hurting another.
I know full well that words can kill.
This means that if someone starts to have an oppressive behavior or enables one, I will be forced to be an opposing force.
This also means that if I follow my motto and I want to stay here, I'm will be doomned to be a force of opposition even conflictual against anyone who says something harmfull.
And since I consider the fanbase of One Piece politically, I also know how harmfull it can be for the fanbase to turn hatefull. So this means that I can't even just talk about One Piece here. I will be forced to fight negativity in every corner.
I thought I could do that. In fact I thought that I could do that in many places, not just this forum. This was a simply political strategy and a evidence created by my political belief system.
But no more.
Now, I have accepted the impossibility of not being able to force change, at least not by me. My opinions are too radicals for the majority of people here, they will never be able to accept them. And I will never be able to repress myself if I see someone going full berserk conservative and toxic here.
So, I need to find a way to escape this forum and my political methodology and find something more constructive to do with it. Closer to my political side.
Hence why I'm leaving. Not because I'm mad or frustrated, but because It's useless and I'm fighting the wind. This has become meaningless and is therefore starting to exhaust me greatly.
I'll let a chance to more positive people to make a change. In the hope that this forum and our fanbase starts to look for a new path.