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The merits of their point was literally to murder, decapitate, cook, and consume their political opponents. I think humor is appropriate.
by amalgamated_inc 4y ago
The merits of their point was literally to murder, decapitate, cook, and consume their political opponents.
I think humor is appropriate.
- syzarian 4y agoThe fat people in the pic aren’t carrying the sign calling for those actions. We don’t know if they agree with those sentiments or not. I mentioned this in my post. It doesn’t pass for humor in my view. It’s just a dumb, childish retort. Let’s look at an extreme example to illustrate why the retort is foolish. Suppose it was a pic of Hermann Goering holding a sign saying, “We eat Jews” and the response is to note that Goering is fat. It’s just a dumb take. The response ought to be about how abhorrent it is to call for eating people or decapittimg them. Notice how because of his dumb tweet we are not discussing the important issue of being able to advocate for a position without the threat of violence. We are talking about Paul Graham’s dumb tweet. When get into a fight with mud slingers you come out dirty.
- amalgamated_inc 4y ago> Suppose it was a pic of Hermann Goering holding a sign saying, “We eat Jews” and the response is to note that Goering is fat. It'd still be funny though :)