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Uhm:

The world is wider, and more varied than you imagine:

Now *this* is a terrible and inappropriate response.

Uhm, I’m not certain about the consensus on Nazis...

I see where you’re coming from, and there’s certainly something for it as well - it’s a time when emotions are raw, and the potential for misunderstanding is rife. But some things come to mind.

Sounds like an arse, and I’m sorry that that’s how he chose to live his life. I hope he was able to reflect, and perhaps grow beyond some of this type of behaviour.

In b4 No True Gamer pops u....

Nuh uh. Elves and dwarves in faux pastiche Europe are fine, but people of colour? That’s just bullshit.

OMFG, thanks!

This. I’ve been having the same issue on multiple computers and multiple browsers.

Mash Report! This was also great:

Gods, THIS. There was this fantastic set of articles from the WP on this:

Gee, then it’s a good thing that some of us aren’t from the States, and think that arguments claiming cultural relativism to excuse discrimination are bullshit.

The people who regularly conflate that don’t do it by accident or inadvertently - it’s essentially the only way they know how to protect their privilege - by casting a movement for equality as one of discrimination. 

Yup, and thanks to laws against murder and robbery, we hardly have those anymore.

There are multiple such boards/ subreddits, whose members look for any such article, go back and post about it, and start of a brigading effect - sometimes to the extent of chucking out scripted arguments (ie, in this post, it’s the stuff like “cultural relativism”!, “it’s what you evil progressives/ EssJayDubyas do “h

Dude, I will bet you good money he doesn’t even know what Feminism is.

I’m still waiting for Charlie Jane Anders to do one...

Oh man, I’m loving this. So it’s fine for you to make arguments from ignorance (ie, your alleged lack of knowledge about KiA), but gods forbid someone else do that (ie, me allegedly not knowing your motives)? Tbh, the whole “holding others to standards you don’t apply to yourself” is kinda boring at this point, but

Can you point out the logical fallacies I’ve made? I’d talk about them calmly and rationally if you’d give that a shot without the quips?