A conversation about conversations about bigotry

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Originally Posted by Nique

Is everyone seriously not having a problem with people comparing acts of physical violence and abuse to someone getting mad at them on the internet in a discussion about groups who are often in a position of enduring those things?

I'm not saying a little hyperbole isn't ok every now and then but this is a problem because 1) It's a strawman fallacy pure and simple and 2) it appears to be escalating. What's next? Did Liz rape you with her meanness?

No, it was just because the conversation was about an entire subject, and yet that whole subject was focused on a single series of a single company posted in the Games subforum (so, not even a general discussion). to which, i, myself suggested that that might not be the best venue to talk about that topic in that way in that place...

You make a thread about Atlus or Sony or Mojang, then i want to discuss about Atlus, Sony or Mojang... but in that thread we couldn't, cause it was about eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverything. Then, if we opened up to include everything ("so, what about this one and that one?") we got shot down because it was just about Atlus and how everybody was shitty for not demonizing the shitty thing the shitty company was doing...