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Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by yummyfajitas on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:55AM (#3766531)
This sort of bikeshedding shows up all over HN and on all sorts of non-ism issues. For example, infinite scrolling vs pagination:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3759101

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Re:Jessamyn Smith: Fighting sexist jokes with a Python bot by whateverer on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @12:25PM (#3767008)
Yes, but it's not just about the banal critique, it's about the subtle (or not so subtle) invalidation of the offense, the cephalic burial in sand over the problem, discussing the particulars of a single instance of a problem that's seemingly all over the place.
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