Did any useful communication happen on that second thread?
No, not really.
It wasn’t quite as bad as the one time a message board decided I was a fundamentalist nut because I had the audacity to suggest that religion may also have benefits (even if those were possibly outweighed by the harms). But I did get a similar “it doesn’t really matter what you say, we’ve already decided to interpret it in the worst possible way regardless” vibe.
It wasn’t quite as bad as the one time a message board decided I was a fundamentalist nut because I had the audacity to suggest that religion may also have benefits (even if those were possibly outweighed by the harms).
Did any useful communication happen on that second thread? It looks like an epic identity politics circle jerk.
No, not really.
It wasn’t quite as bad as the one time a message board decided I was a fundamentalist nut because I had the audacity to suggest that religion may also have benefits (even if those were possibly outweighed by the harms). But I did get a similar “it doesn’t really matter what you say, we’ve already decided to interpret it in the worst possible way regardless” vibe.
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