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0culus:

--- Quote from: lukego on July 23, 2020, 04:42:06 am ---I'm only a casual reader of this forum but boy does this thread give me bad vibes.

Like Yoda said:
Support or support not, there is no 1500+ message anti-"SJW" culture war tirade lead by moderators and administrators.

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Why does it give you bad vibes? How about explaining your position instead of posting snark?
John B:
But lukego said there's no culture war tirade lead by mods and admins, so you could interpret that message in many ways.
lukego:

--- Quote from: 0culus on July 23, 2020, 04:59:49 am ---Why does it give you bad vibes? How about explaining your position instead of posting snark?

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So to me it's like going to a party where everybody is mingling and having a good time, then someone asks "hey did you like Lord of the Rings?" Someone says yes, someone says no, but then the host and his mates launch into an hour-long prepared speech about how Peter Jackson fundamentally misunderstood the books and anybody who likes the films is provably a philistine.

Then the next time there's a party the only people who turn up are the ones who love ragging on Peter Jackson, plus a couple of idiots like me who are slow to react to social cues and need to be vanquished a second time.
Nominal Animal:
Lukego, you make it sound like this was about opinions.

That's a really hurtful mischaracterisation.  This is about logic, and the futility of this movement.

It is more like going to a party, where a bunch of political activists are demanding mathematics to be changed so that pi = 4, and having a group of engineers and scientists there getting bewildered about the stupidity, futility, and utter madness at that.

And then you get there, and complain to the engineers and scientists that they're disrupting the party, that they should just accept the new status quo and stop making everyone else uncomfortable.
Simon:

--- Quote from: lukego on July 23, 2020, 06:50:24 am ---
--- Quote from: 0culus on July 23, 2020, 04:59:49 am ---Why does it give you bad vibes? How about explaining your position instead of posting snark?

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So to me it's like going to a party where everybody is mingling and having a good time, then someone asks "hey did you like Lord of the Rings?" Someone says yes, someone says no, but then the host and his mates launch into an hour-long prepared speech about how Peter Jackson fundamentally misunderstood the books and anybody who likes the films is provably a philistine.

Then the next time there's a party the only people who turn up are the ones who love ragging on Peter Jackson, plus a couple of idiots like me who are slow to react to social cues and need to be vanquished a second time.

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People on here are free to disagree with moderators and admin, they won't be chastised but we will make our personal arguments. I'm not here as a moderator to ensure that there is an equal balance of liker's and haters, that's called net neutrality according to the BBC, we don't do that, we just ensure it's civil. It just so happens that most engineers are nice people and have a brain and use it to think for themselves and don't take kindly to some upstarts that have nothing to do with their industry telling them how to do their job's and digging up "hidden bias" according to them and their narrow minded interpretation of the world.

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