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Why do you personally care so much about my buried comment that you had to come in here to defend the use of douche bag? Is saying douche bag really all that i
by parfe 14y ago
Why do you personally care so much about my buried comment that you had to come in here to defend the use of douche bag? Is saying douche bag really all that important to you?
Of course it isn't. But it's part of a larger culture you have a vested interest in maintaining which is why you need to defend it.
Defending douchebag is about defending the right to be carelessly and callously offensive without needing to think of others in the community.
- craigyk 14y agoOr it's a freedom of speech thing, -or- its feeling some sympathy for a guy whose writing style tries to be somewhat creative, certainly not dry, and probably didn't expect, and doesn't deserve accusations of sexism, etc.
- parfe 14y agoYes, the version of free speech where you need to feel free to say whatever you want without concern for how it might impact others or make your own community hostile to entire swaths of the population. Because if I want to be a careless, self centered, unsympathetic human being then that's my right and how dare someone point out I might be harming others! And the author did expect those accusations which is why in his blog comments he links back to month old comment of his on hackernews where he defends his right to be offensive.