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I said it was a reasonable position, not that it was my preference. I'm capable of admitting that something that isn't my first choice is reasonable. But it's n
by leereeves 7y ago
I said it was a reasonable position, not that it was my preference. I'm capable of admitting that something that isn't my first choice is reasonable. But it's not reasonable if it's enforced unfairly.
And the policy here at Hacker News is to consider the strongest version of an argument. You did the opposite, cherry-picking the weakest examples.
> you linked a list of 15 bad examples
No, a list (that I didn't make) with some examples that were stronger than others, and you tried to ignore the strong ones. Even you admitted that Kathy Griffin's actions led to deplatforming from some platforms. And you've again ignored the cartoonist who also depicted Trump's severed head. And you're dismissing talk about beating someone up because you disagree with them as an "off-color joke".
You also misrepresented my position.
> your position was that the left didn't deplatform her
This is a discussion about YouTube's policy, it's natural to assume I meant YouTube, which I did. Again, respond to the strongest version of my argument, not a different argument that's easier to attack.
- drcongo 7y agoAs a bystander here, it's almost impossible to work out what your argument actually is, let alone what the strongest version of it might be. It seems to be nothing more than whataboutism, like when a primary school child gets told off and their response is to complain that someone else did something entirely unrelated and didn't get told off.
- leereeves 7y agoYour simile is terrible. I'm not one of the parties, I'm like a third party who watched two children be treated differently and pointed out the inconsistency. And my point is simple: YouTube should have a consistent policy and enforce it fairly, not ban haphazardly when they feel like it. What you call "whataboutism" shows that the policy isn't enforced consistently or fairly. I don't know why that's hard to work out when I said it in the first post.