Earth Day 2025

[knieft]

Not Puna/Hawaii Related

Please help me navigate the seemingly arbitrary application of the rules.

I posted about a movie with two major Hawaii stars in it about agriculture which is sort of a thing in Puna.



Please help me be a better Punawebber going forward.

It’s really quite simple. Some people are more equal than others in Hawaii, in Puna, on PunaTalk, and on Earth Day. (See what I did there?)

Thus, your posts are seen, by the more equal folks, as hypercritical. So “where their only hope is to treat anyone unlike themselves with hostility and distain” your posts get treated with hostility and disdain regularly. It’s just an extension of the irony of some people being more equal than others. You aren’t more equal, and that might be a a point in your favor!

Good luck navigating, and you have been about as polite as possible in responding to those you treat you with a priori hostility and disdain. I think you are a fine and dandy PunaWebber, just not more equal.  I suspect there are a couple/few other Punawebbers, like myself, who have restricted themselves to mostly information threads and avoided posting in the threads dominated by ideological attackers, who might think so as well.

In any case, those who call you immature and naive, who question your intelligence and empathy at nearly every turn, and are just generally mean in response to anyone falling outside the hardened boundaries of their seamless ideological Truth, are not the totality of PunaWebbers. They are the most visible these days since I suspect fewer people bother calling them out on their hypercritical posts, following the moderators’ lead. They have a pass, you don’t. It’s just the price of admission, as Dan Savage likes to say in another context…

Who knows? (They do!)

Cheers,
Kirt