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Spearthrower wrote:

Cito di Pense wrote:What's actually going on is animus between acquaintances that have just known each other's political positions for just a little too long.

There was no animus coming from me towards Ironclad, and as my post said: I don't understand at all his tone or reaction in threads like these. I don't know why he routinely takes an apparently reactionary point of view. I did however understand him dismissing a prior post as a playground response, so I thought he might respond with some consideration and reasoned discussion to my post which aimed to set out some pertinent context. I didn't manage to net so much as a word in response, but as soon as romansh rushed us across right to the borders of alt-right country, Ironclad seemed to find that kind of playground response amusing.

Now dearest old Cito me laddie, I know you're an incorrigible crusty who's not at all sure that anyone ever can hope to better themselves, but I'm an eternal optimist - as I am sure you are all too familiar with by now!

So my post was genuinely meant to underscore why people could reasonably be offended by such cartoonish caricatures, that it's not just snowflakeism on their part to not enjoy being just an exotic fantasy trope for other peoples' entertainment.

Are you saying that I should never expect better than attack helicopter style responses on topics like this, or are you saying that my own post's motivation in establishing a plausibly rational foundation for discussion was, for all intents, culpably naive and basically just asking for it?