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The whole dogwhistling accusation tactic is a well-known method of derailing a conversation
by postsantum 4y ago
The whole dogwhistling accusation tactic is a well-known method of derailing a conversation
- BizarroLand 4y agoI mean, there's nothing I can say or do to ever convince a person to see my viewpoint once they have decided that someone's race decides their value. There are no magic words, no sudo "be a kinder person" command, no entreaties, no begging, no threats, no guile that can convince someone on the internet who has decided to take a confrontational stance to stand down, or reconsider. If you act racist on the internet then you are racist. If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Where there's smoke, there's fire. It is a safe assumption that they are here to try to rile people up and make people upset and have no interest in speaking fairly or changing their position under any circumstances. I am no more interested in the feelings of either racist people or the people who choose to act like them than I am with the quality of your coworker's friend's pet's bowel movements. If you enjoy making people upset on the internet by spewing racist rhetoric then I hope your conversations constantly get derailed.
- Viliam1234 4y ago> If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Things get more difficult if an online mob compiles a database of thousand different sounds that ducks allegedly make, and says "if it makes one of the sounds in this database, it's a duck".