Veiled personal attacks like "But also - I suppose it doesn’t matter to you", which you ignored, and catlover76 called out as an unfounded accusation?

> Veiled personal attacks like (...)

Don't feign ignorance.

I think it's you who is feigning ignorance. My comment didn't make a veiled "personal attack", but the other poster's certainly did. His comment also seeks to justify and/or ignore harms done to others.

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That poster made a post that both implied, on the basis of basically nothing, bigotry on the part of the person to whom they were replying, and changed the topic from a concrete example of an attempt of organized discrimination to "what about the bad stuff I don't like instead?"

I responded to his "whatabout" with another "whatabout", and noted rhetorically that if he wants to dot hat, and to lob unfounded accusations at other commenters, then the same can easily be done to him.