• palordrolap
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      1119 hours ago

      (Edit: The first sentence is not a quote of the original, now deleted, comment, merely a restatement of what I believed to be the same underlying sentiment. I might’ve been wrong. Kind of hard to tell.)

      “Their sexuality and their conception of gender is different to mine, and I know it’s wrong to mess with kids, therefore they must be a danger to kids.”

      I like ice-cream and I don’t like the idea of punching small children in the street, therefore people who don’t like ice-cream must like punching small children in the street.”

      These two sentences use the same logic.

      • @[email protected]
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        219 hours ago

        Lmao is that an actual quote? They deleted their comment, and I hope it’s because they realized their mistake.

        • palordrolap
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          319 hours ago

          No. They were espousing some unclear but potentially bigoted beliefs that I took to be the sentiment I parodied with the first sentence, but those were not their words. They might have even been going for sarcastic/ironic espousal of the same beliefs, I’m really not sure.

          I’ve added an explanation to my original comment to try to avoid any confusion.

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            17 hours ago

            Oh, that was one of the prominent conservative posters and whatever it was, it was absolutely bigoted as fuck. If it wasn’t, it absolutely was something stupid.