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I'll go ahead and skip addressing the weird meta-analysis, aside from recognizing it - and calling it weird. As far as taking exception with the language used t

by tal8d 6y ago

I'll go ahead and skip addressing the weird meta-analysis, aside from recognizing it - and calling it weird. As far as taking exception with the language used to describe the rioting, well that is just more of the same - the desperation to control language has gone from mildly annoying to simply pitiful. It also makes the task of accurately describing the participants and their activities impossible, which you foreshadow... > ...what do the air quotes mean? Consider not only the stupidity of cramming so many people into a single label suffixed by the word "community", but the utility that such an exercise would offer - and to who's benefit. Do you feel a sense of community with the rest of the people who share some arbitrary set of qualities with you? The right handed, brown eyed, bowl cut community?

refulgentis 6y ago
I wish you well, fellow traveller: it sounds like you read a lot of things into my comment I didn't say, and they made you angry and caused you to lash out a little. I'll point out the things you're mentioning were not only not said by me, and in fact, were things other people chastised me for not saying. The weird meta-analysis may cut against your instincts, but you're going to have to deal with it at some point. It's weird to you because I _don't_ engage with the complex LARP you're living in. I simply noted that the comment was wrong at its face