I mean I would have agreed with you except, as you mentioned, OP said “potentially,” so that kind of invalidates your entire point, even if other people engage in this kind of behaviour.

Famous physicist and misogynist “Surely you’re Joking” Mr. Feynman comes to mind. Didn’t even know you can’t have both lemon and milk in you tea.

Wikipedia’s list of largest protests in the U.S.

It’s true that Gaiman’s actions haven’t directly killed anyone, but I’m not sure there are enough victims to definitively say that getting raped by Gaiman would cause less propensity for suicide than Rowling’s advocacy against trans people. But… I suspect you are right.

who here said both sides same?

I’m not the on who brought the word problematic into this conversation. But I bet you if I put a poll on, say, tumblr, asking about different potentially problematic things, “pretending to be asian” would score highly on the problematic scale.

there is a long and respected history of mocking germans.

I’m not throwing any stones, yo. I’m just pointing out you can’t exactly say he’s not problematic. I have a tolerance for problematicity so it’s of no bother to me.

Isn’t Truth Social available for people like him?

not problematic

I love the guy but I’m sure you could find an instance of him being problematic. Like his pen name, David Wong, is questionable given he’s not asian.

I’m not necessarily advocating for extra energy spent here. I’m advocating for not rubbing the salt into the wound by mocking her, like others are doing in this thread. Doesn’t exactly seem like a good way to be welcoming to new converts.

I would be tempted to agree with you that it’s a straw man, except for all the other responses to my comment.

well the zizians were obviously insane, nobody likes them. The rationalists disowned them, just like they disowned FTX.

As a moral philosophy, I am not certain about utilitarianism. But outside of morality, if you’re going to have preferences, you might as well do the math.

All that true and it works ™

Now we just need people to listen to our hot takes and we’re set.

It’s not about compassion at all. We need more numbers.

People learn.

an imperfect ally is still an ally. We need to cut it with the purity tests on the left or we’re never going to win.

Instead of giving her the leopards treatment, maybe we should be welcoming people like this who want to change allegiances.

I’ve been enjoying Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers. However, it’s rather technical compared to mario kart, so I would recommend against using the cheat-code to skip the tutorial.

but you could sell it to a nonsuspecting sucker and buy a new one.

Also, most cartridges contain games as I understand it; only some are keys.