Who is exaggerating?
Do you think the people OP was complaining about would say, "Yes, that's a fair summary of what we think"?
This is how you turn a useful discussion into a pointless shouting match - you caricature and exaggerate your outgroup's position. "You're a bunch of religious extremists!" "Well you just want to be biased and get away with it!" "Stop trying to be thought police!" "Stop being so racist!"
Re:We don't do that here (2017)
by concordDance on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:27PM
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Do you think prohibitions on "whitelist" etc are a strawman?
I quoted the part I was referring to. I think it was a reasonable comment until OP had to throw on some kerosene at the end there - that's the thing we (I hope?) don't do here.
Re:We don't do that here (2017)
by concordDance on Thursday July 28, 2022 @04:43AM
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Oh, yeah.
While each individual bit is mostly true ("new-speak", a group that shares many religiosity traits deeming more and more parts of language bad and people joining the witch hunters out of fear of being labelled witches (I'm guilty of this)) the extra adjectives and hyperbole are harmful to discourse.
Have an upvote.
We don't do that here. If a belief or position or ideology is bad, you should be able to skewer the actual position rather than an exaggerated strawman of it.