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Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by alexmat on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:05AM (#14939790)
If I quote Hitler in a debate about world war 2, am I normalizing the Holocaust?
Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by etchalon on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:12AM (#14939811)
It's a question of how you quote him. If you quote him to argue against him, especially if you do so in a reasonable, thoughtful way, you would be implying the initial statement or argument was reasoned, and thoughtful.

"Normalization" is the process by which we treat ludicrous things as not ludicrous, but debatable.

Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by TimTheTinker on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:25AM (#14939865)
Treating other people's opinions as ludicrous might work as a strategy to an extent, but in the long run that approach will only create further division and ostracism.

Tear apart the ideas with friendly, well-reasoned arguments, yes! Ideas are fair game. Fight fire with fire, not gasoline.

Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by alexmat on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:21AM (#14939852)
Everything is debatable. Even this.
Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by TimTheTinker on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:11AM (#14939810)
Buzzzzzz. Godwin's law.
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Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by TimTheTinker on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:36AM (#14939912)
Intended in fun only. Hope I didn't give offense :-)
Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by alexmat on Sunday August 06, 2017 @02:55AM (#14940124)
That was my first assumption, and none taken :)
Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by ngoldbaum on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:05AM (#14939793)
Yes
Re:About This Googler's Manifesto by alexmat on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:08AM (#14939798)
So everything is black and white now and we've lost all room for nuance and grey areas? Seems like that kind of environment would stifle the exploration of difficult subject matter.