I’m sure it’s a combination of several factors but I’m sticking with young and stupid AND the hive mind.

“Regarding a cosplayer has agency but a fictional character not, well, first i don’t know why one can’t make a fictional character have that agency when it is clearly visible that many actual real life people show that agency themselves.”

“Also, SJW’s had this guy’s dog killed:”

“This happens on both the gamer side and the SJW side. Like many emotionally driven topics, there’s extremists on both sides, whether or not an article makes that clear.”

“Alison Rapp is a person who, long before any of the current controversy, as a pr person on her public Twitter announced that “misandry does not exist”. In my book, any time you want to belittle the plight of an entire group of people (see holocaust doesn’t exist, there is no racism toward blacks, etc.) you can just…

“If you expect me to believe that a bunch of kids (who have probably never written a thesis themselves) can give the first couple of pages (of a hundred plus page document) a light reading and come out able to “ah-ha!/Gotcha!/destroy a paper that a panel of Doctors couldn’t do over the course of a day...”

“Don’t promote child sex and don’t escort while being a PR agent for a corporation. Is that so hard?”

I think the troll is making a distinction between healthy concern and irrational fear. As in: they are saying an unloaded gun sitting on a table would make you scared.

You know, you could be right about a lot of things but the way you interact with people makes you sound like a real asshole.

“Edit: one more question, sorry for the nosiness, but have the different flavors of racism you’ve faced made any impact on how you choose to identify yourself?”

Yes. Of course, yes. At any given moment I could be mistaken for the kind of person some bigot hates. I’ve experienced prejudice from just about every corner of the globe. Whether I’m “too white” or “too black” or “too asian” or a “filthy Muslim” (not a race, I know), I can walk into a room and feel someone’s hate.

That depends on whom you ask. I’m mixed Italian, Black, Chinese, Costa Rican, Scottish by way of Jamaica (“Out of many, one people”). I look like a dark Italian on most days so I can ‘pass’ in North America — except among Italians who see me either as Sicilian or mixed — but I’m sometimes mistaken for a wide array,…

We’ll send your placard in the mail. Please signify if you prefer it with the gold foil stamp or not.

“Besides, laws against hate speech doesn’t actually do much to guard against bigotry.”

“I’m not discounting your experiences, but racism in any degree is still harmful.”

First, because I believe in the adage: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. But, cool, whatever, I’m discounting racism or some shit.

My pleasure! If it’s long-winded and civil you want, I gotchya covered. Unless you want to remake Casablanca. Then you’re dead to me.

LOL! Reductive, dismissive mischaracterization.

Fair enough. I guess I’m a little less sensitive to cultural appropriation as it pertains to dreads because, IME, while Jamaicans sometimes ridicule people emulating Jamaican culture (and we are weirdly possessive of dreadlocks even though they weren’t invented here), there’s also an element of pride seeing people…

“You are quite literally discounting racism when you say “That really shouldn’t be an issue in Toronto malls.””