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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by patrec on Sunday March 03, 2019 @06:51PM (#19297720)
Are you saying you tried to come up with a counterexample but couldn't or are you saying that I shouldn't make this claim without one?
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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by tylerjwilk00 on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:57AM (#19301714)
You refuted his point but without anything supporting your claim.

What is your counterexample?

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Re:Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks by patrec on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:35PM (#19306324)
People rightly fear being labelled as X-phobic for various values of X because it can easily ruin their careers or lives.

This fear likely constitutes a more effective mechanism for turning large numbers of people away from genocidal hatred of various forms of "otherness" than rewarding positive behavior or making a reasoned case because it scales better. So the claim that fear of otherness can't be counteracted by other fears seems implausible to me.

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