• southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        I stuck to the topic of the post and didn’t veer off. Anyone wants to start a different branch of the discussion, that’s fine. But that’s not what the comment I responded to did. They complained that I didn’t expand on the topic.

          • Un trop vert timide@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 days ago

            No, the dismissing tone of the message providing this contradiction is the problem. It does not have the form of simple nuances or counter-arguments. It has the form of an attack on the previous commenter’s credibility.

            • CheesyFingers@piefed.social
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              4 days ago

              If counter examples to highlight flaws in blanket statements are an attack to a person’s credibility then idk what to tell you.

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                I’m just saying that it isn’t as single facet as the screen shot tries to make it. It is/was a product of a full cultural shift and it wasn’t as arbitrary as that makes it out to be.

                I don’t think trying to provide a more nuanced explanation qualifies as a blanket statement…

              • Un trop vert timide@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                4 days ago

                My comment had an important follow up, posted only 7 minutes later, that makes your response to me quite silly.

                But even if I ignore my follow-up comment, beacause you maybe didn’t even notice its existence… If you don’t know how to read a three-sentences message without ignoring the first two-and-a-half, I don’t know what to tell you.

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              4 days ago

              And to be clear, about the core of these comments, form aside. I do not fully agree with the explanations given, while I recognise the reasonning as sound. I am just pretty sure there were and still are additional contributing factors, especially when not focusing on the USA. I do agree with thu counter examples. (Again, not with how these were given.)