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Don't you think you should check yourself before attacking others? > "it's unclear to me which of the parties you intend to accuse of doing the moral equivalen

Don't you think you should check yourself before attacking others? > "it's unclear to me which of the parties you intend to accuse of doing the moral equivalent of burning innocent people alive en masse, but either way, maybe you should think about walking back that rhetoric a bit" ... but only earlier today were you equating a data protection law with the Holocaust... seems you could do with a bit less projection and rhetoric yourself, Kraggy.

kragen 3y ago
this is careless reasoning; rather than equating a so-called 'data protection law' with the holocaust, i said the justification others were using for that law was incorrect, because if it were correct, it would also justify the holocaust this is not an extremely advanced form of logic, but i understand that it is not within everyone's grasp the comment in question is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 octavia's other, rather astounding comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149528 is probably also useful context my objection to the war rhetoric in this case is that it casts people as opponents who are not, in fact, opponents, just different parties pursuing largely independent interests. in that context playing 'let's you and him fight' seems unlikely to improve the situation
- 0ct4via 3y ago
  Why use so-called? It's literally a law concerning data protection. Unless you feel that the empirical truth somehow shouldn't be used to describe the GDPR and colloquial "right to be forgotten" aspects it entails, you're just trolling for trolling's sake -- either that, or you don't even know that you're using "so-called" improperly. Once again you jump to mansplaining and condescension, followed by failing to even get a username correct when it's literally on your screen. Your repeated attempts to tell people what they think, what they do or do not know, and where they live, show that every observation of you being arrogant, condescending, and disingenuous, is patently correct. Unsure if you need a shovel to get out of that hole you've put yourself in, but you're sure backpedaling quickly, yikes.

kragen 3y ago

this is careless reasoning; rather than equating a so-called 'data protection law' with the holocaust, i said the justification others were using for that law was incorrect, because if it were correct, it would also justify the holocaust this is not an extremely advanced form of logic, but i understand that it is not within everyone's grasp the comment in question is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147305 octavia's other, rather astounding comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149528 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37149528 is probably also useful context my objection to the war rhetoric in this case is that it casts people as opponents who are not, in fact, opponents, just different parties pursuing largely independent interests. in that context playing 'let's you and him fight' seems unlikely to improve the situation

0ct4via 3y ago
Why use so-called? It's literally a law concerning data protection. Unless you feel that the empirical truth somehow shouldn't be used to describe the GDPR and colloquial "right to be forgotten" aspects it entails, you're just trolling for trolling's sake -- either that, or you don't even know that you're using "so-called" improperly. Once again you jump to mansplaining and condescension, followed by failing to even get a username correct when it's literally on your screen. Your repeated attempts to tell people what they think, what they do or do not know, and where they live, show that every observation of you being arrogant, condescending, and disingenuous, is patently correct. Unsure if you need a shovel to get out of that hole you've put yourself in, but you're sure backpedaling quickly, yikes.