Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger words and safe spaces

Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by vidarh on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:22AM (#11478569)

> Attacking a person's character or history instead of attacking their argument represents an act of dissociation or insansity, either of which would equal triggering in the magnitude of its infantile absurdity.

I find this quite amusing as the end of a comment that started with an attack on someones character.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by zuminator on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:32AM (#11478618)

I believe the intent was that despite the flaws in Fry's character, it doesn't make his argument any less compelling.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by vidarh on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:48AM (#11478691)

I get that, but the personal attack is still there. The comment just also says that we shouldn't let personal character affect the argument, which I agree with. I just found the structure of the argument where the commenter basically ends by arguing that they themselves have engaged in "an act of dissociation or insansity" quite amusing.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by wanda on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @12:14PM (#11480847)

Actually I just wanted to agree that Fry is a bit dodgy but also point out that it is irrelevant that anybody thinks he's dodgy.

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Re:Stephen Fry hits out at ‘infantile’ culture of trigger wo... by icebraining on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @07:53AM (#11478716)

Mind the "instead" carefully positioned in that phrase.

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