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You are wasting your time debating with people who use terminology like “cancel culture” or “SJW”. They aren’t interested in arguing in good faith. If it was

You are wasting your time debating with people who use terminology like “cancel culture” or “SJW”. They aren’t interested in arguing in good faith. If it was any other forum, I’d suggest simply mock them and move on. Here, you are best just downvoting and moving on. If this forum wanted to avoid getting overrun by these people, they’d ban them. People who use terminology like “SJW” are toxic and spread like cancer, pushing away people interested in actual debate or intelligent conversation.

quotemstr 7y ago
If Jesse Singal is your idea of a person who isn't "arguing in good faith" and who should be mocked, you're pretty far outside the mainstream. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture-the-new-republic https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture-the-new... > pushing away people interested in actual debate or intelligent conversation. It's fascinating how "actual debate" and "intelligent conversation" mean, to you, avoiding words that you don't like. The most parsimonious explanation for the spread of these terms is that an increasing number of people intensely dislike the things to which these words refer --- and that every day they're less afraid of being called "toxic" for criticizing our culture of censorship and pitchfork mobs.
- spookthesunset 7y ago
  No thanks, homeboy. I’m not gonna dance. You can go defend your alt-right words like “virtue signaling”, “SJW”, “cancel culture”, and all the other toxic trash you spew somewhere else, thanks.
  - tptacek 7y ago
    We probably agree about most of this stuff, but the way you're putting this is not helping.
    - spookthesunset 7y ago
      Sorry. I have little patience arguing with alt-right types. They aren’t interested in anything but playing semantic word games until you get tired. They have little interest in debate, human empathy, or anything else. They are toxic people. Also my cat threw up on a book, so there is that problem too. You have far more patience than I do...

quotemstr 7y ago

If Jesse Singal is your idea of a person who isn't "arguing in good faith" and who should be mocked, you're pretty far outside the mainstream. https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture-the-new-republic https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/on-cancel-culture-the-new... > pushing away people interested in actual debate or intelligent conversation. It's fascinating how "actual debate" and "intelligent conversation" mean, to you, avoiding words that you don't like. The most parsimonious explanation for the spread of these terms is that an increasing number of people intensely dislike the things to which these words refer --- and that every day they're less afraid of being called "toxic" for criticizing our culture of censorship and pitchfork mobs.

spookthesunset 7y ago
No thanks, homeboy. I’m not gonna dance. You can go defend your alt-right words like “virtue signaling”, “SJW”, “cancel culture”, and all the other toxic trash you spew somewhere else, thanks.
- tptacek 7y ago
  We probably agree about most of this stuff, but the way you're putting this is not helping.
  - spookthesunset 7y ago
    Sorry. I have little patience arguing with alt-right types. They aren’t interested in anything but playing semantic word games until you get tired. They have little interest in debate, human empathy, or anything else. They are toxic people. Also my cat threw up on a book, so there is that problem too. You have far more patience than I do...