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WCDT: 2826-2830 (03 - 07 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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Akima:

--- Quote from: valkygrrl on 07 Nov 2014, 18:48 ---The Mormon woman said, you're enjoying a movie OMG don't know know you should be talking about the evil gay agenda.

You said, hey a funny reference to a guest strip OMG you should talk about trans themes in fish related media.

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And... We're supposed to see these statements as completely equivalent?

Ashilana:

--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 07 Nov 2014, 19:09 ---I'll put my lurking hand up and say that valkygrrl needs to back off. Other people declared to enjoy April's input, you're welcome to ignore it if it's not your cup of tea. As it stands, I do not appreciate reading your harassment when she is clearly trying to not engage with you/certainly not in any way attacking you.

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I hate that this is my first post, but I have to agree with Fenriswolf.

I really wish I had registered a while back and made a random squee post. 

Orkboy:

--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 07 Nov 2014, 16:14 ---I think it's a sign I'm getting old when I see chain of conversation I want to engage on (especially the original story of Hua Mulan) and just say to myself "Nah. Akima will get it."

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See, I take it as a sign that I'm getting old when I look at an argument, decide pretty much immediately which side I agree with and which side has their heads up their asses, and then decide that I don't give enough of a shit to get involved in internet drama.  Unless I'm poking the zealots.  Poking the zealots to watch them froth is always funny, even if I nominally agree with whatever they're fanatical about. 

Is it cold in here?:
(mod)Poking people to see them froth is trolling. If you want to have that fun, have it on another forum.

Global Moderator Comment The Valkygrrl/AprilArcus quarrel does not belong here and one way or another it will go elsewhere.

Dalillama:

--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Nov 2014, 15:48 ---
--- Quote from: Dalillama on 07 Nov 2014, 15:23 ---'I respect your right to believe that' means 'I don't think you should suffer legal consequences for that belief'
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So "respect" means no more than "I don't think you should be flung in jail", but any insult, expression of contempt, or social ostracism short of that is just fine?
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'I respect your right to that belief' is not the same statement as 'I respect that belief'.  The former, as I noted, states only one thing, although usually 'legal sanction' is expanded to include things like opposing private employment and housing discrimination based on e.g. religion.
For instance, I respect people's right to believe that the Earth is 6000 years old, (but not to teach same in schools), but I will invariably mock such beliefs, and generally the people who hold them, and feel no guilt about it, because it's a patently stupid thing to believe. 
Then there are beliefs that I don't respect people's right to have, or at any rate to act on; for instance, the belief that praying over a sick child is equivalent to seeking medical help is one that damn well should carry legal sanction (but doesn't in most of the U.S.).

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