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Originally Posted by Cecilia  The email was about a couple of gang members who were pulling guns and knives on people.
I didn't tell his response....this is what triggered me.....he said.....
"What do you say to people that makes them want to carve their initials in your skin."
I'm not even sure how that statment even fit into the conversation. I didn't get the joke. That makes me want to throw up. I don't see the humor. |
A hoax about gang bangers pulling knives and guns on folks and being violent? No, just more news. Hoaxes are about things like HIV needles in gas pump handles. Gang bangers really, really do violent things.
My read on this is that your friend did not like being informed that this was NOT a hoax - he did not like being wrong. If you let the entire list of people know that it was not a hoax, that it was real, and he was wrong, he may have felt publicly humiliated - he may be one of those who is NEVER wrong? Therefore, his "humor" was aggressive and threatening.
Your reaction to his "joke" is not misplaced at all. I am not amused by it either. I would be concerned about a person in my acquaintance who said something like that to me - I would believe them to be unbalanced and, conceivably, dangerous. I would not be comfortable with a person like that in a social setting after such a "joke". People who "joke" about doing violent things sometimes follow up with action.
It is not a joking matter to talk about doing great bodily harm to people. Charles Whitman, before he went up the tower at the Univ. of Texas, and in sniper fashion shot down many people, told a psychiatrist about his fantasy. I guess the psychiatrist didn't take it seriously.
Anyhow, YOU are not the one with a problem, here.
Cowgirl