Reminds of the imams laughing when people would wrap bacon around their mosque door handles, as if they had some sort of spiritual allergy to pigs.

Hurrah!

Doin good work here Ma!

Adjusted the spine a bit.

They are when they’re off the internet. Don’t have access to their .txt document of 4chan talking points and contextless urban-crime statistics!

Lol, so he’s a backtracking coward.

Didn’t the parties basically switch platforms at some point around the turn of the twentieth century? I’m sure I heard that somewhere.

How is that shit legal, jesus christ.

I know I should be angry, but I loled.

No.

No worries, and I may have been a bit prickly. Had people try to draw me into these damn nitpicking philosophical debates before here.

And pragmatically you can’t keep everyone happy all the time while achieving your goals. Such is life. I guess they could ask all bloggers not to call out problematic behavior unless it crosses X threshold of harmfulness. Or to couch their language in as much “not-all-privileged-people” as can be possibly stuffed into…

Hmm, I feel we’re veering towards some sort of semantic debate here...

Great point.

I mean if they want to prove the bastards brigade correct about being a thin-skinned snowflake then sure. Or they can suck it up, scroll the fuck on, and get on with it.

Nope, we are in the right, they are in the wrong. Feel free to look up all the harm done by white supremacists and Nazis. It is right to oppose them even if black people on the internet make you feel unwelcome sometimes.

“why should anyone else rise in arms to help the cause of others?”

Yup. Let them have their platform...tucked away on the deepest, darkest, most expensive, unreliable and obscure parts of the internet. While constantly have to update their bookmarks and re-register. Let’s see how much these fuckers want it!

I’m not sure myself, but other comments suggest the tournament organizers could have banned it but chose not to.

Excellent riffing.