• Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Here’s an actual, completely serious input for you: If you want people to take you seriously and actually engage, don’t start by comparing them to outspoken racists. People will prefer to roast you

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      1 year ago

      I’m not. I didn’t realise people would be so confused by analogies.

      I compared the rhetoric. That’s the point of such devices. You don’t have to be a racist to use similar logic to them.

      This isn’t complicated whatsoever.

      The guy is hiding behind semantics, so I described another instance of hiding behind semantics. I deliberately used an extreme example so the error was more clear. Basic reductio ad absurdum.