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Re:Take something you don’t like and try to like it by arp242 on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @10:21AM (#45103505)
"I don't like X" is of course not an absolute statement (and neither is "I like X", for that matter). I don't like Hip-Hop. Of course there is some hip-hop that I think is alright, but by and large, "I don't like Hip-Hop" is accurate.

Different people are different, and different things resonate with different people. I find snobbery highly obnoxious, but to be honest my opinion of this kind of dismissal of different people liking different things with a fairly condescending "you have simply not understood it" is not much better.

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Re:Take something you don’t like and try to like it by palata on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @10:30AM (#45103617)
As I said, it's fine to dislike something. I was just saying that it's worth trying to understand first: you may still dislike something that you understand of course.

> but to be honest my opinion of this kind of dismissal of different people liking different things with a fairly condescending "you have simply not understood it" is not much better.

You haven't put too much effort into trying to understand my opinion, have you? :-)

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