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Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by pvg on Saturday November 03, 2018 @11:29PM (#18374021)
Sweet, let's engage in Learned Quote Battle!

"How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?"

--William Shakespeare

a very real assault on demographics like the straight white male

Oh! Never mind, I'll see myself out.

Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by kakarot on Sunday November 04, 2018 @11:09AM (#18376498)
Try to have a debate in any moderately left forum about topics like feminism or economics without having some people come out of the woodwork with character assassination and insults, disregarding your opinion as a priviliged cis white male. It's a real thing and it's ridiculous. I get told all the time I'm not allowed to participate in conversations based on my sex, sexual orientation, and skin color.
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by pvg on Sunday November 04, 2018 @04:56PM (#18378266)
I feel like I need to correct you on a couple of things.

People being mean to you in a forum is not evidence of "a very real assault on demographics like the straight white male".

You don't have to be a genocidal maniac to be a white supremacist.

'White genocide' is not something someone yelled in the heat of the moment - it's an old neo-Nazi term and it is obviously intended to justify extremism - after all, what response is inappropriate if you're a victim of genocide?

The people Niemöller was talking about faced imprisonment, torture and murder. The oppression the owners of Gab face involves putting on pants and driving some servers to the nearest colo facility.

Aristotle was not Belgian.

The central message of Buddhism is not "Every man for himself."

And the London Underground is not a political movement.

Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by kakarot on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:11PM (#18379065)
What an incredible strawman.
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by pvg on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:35PM (#18379158)
'strawman' you're going to have to look up yourself since I already did all the other ones.
Re:A Heretic's Guide to Deplatforming by kakarot on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:21PM (#18402518)
You lack quite a bit of self-awareness.