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"Not so fun?"
How old are you?Well I don't hate to agree with you, or to credit your highlighting of others' extreme posts - I'm working on this new concept where I appreciate people disagree with me on things, but I deal with it without flailing my arms in the air and creating a voodoo doll of them and stabbing it repeatedly...
I agree with basically everything you just typed (last paragraph - spot on)
The one thing I disagree with is the naivety of thinking the 'Trump clown' in the video is innocently just a clown...that happens to look like Donald Trump. I don't buy that just like you don't buy my original questioning.
FujiRacer
Hi, hi. Not so fun anymore when the insinuating questions are aimed at yourself is it? My main argument with you is that the whole business of "why hasn't X come forward and condemned Y yet?" is a shit of kind rhetoric, almost always used to cast aspersions rather than raise a civilised debate. To your credit you did say "it's a genuine question", but I don't buy it.
As far as this thread is concerned we did have this muppet a while back. I reported him in the moderators thread, hoping to have him banned. @velocio challenged him, suggesting he reconsider, but didn't ban. In hindsight I think we should have reacted a bit more harshly, but then there is the whole thing of not feeding a troll.
I don't recall anyone linking to any death threat tweets, and if I remember correctly the capitation photo was condemned mildly. (But perhaps I am confusing this with another forum.) Personally, I am in split minds about Snoop Dogg shooting a Trump themed clown, as to me it's a clown that reminds you of Trump, not Trump himself. Similar to how Ali G, when he quoted Snoop Dogg lyrics, was a clown taking the piss out of Snoop's misogyny, but not (as some suggested) a straight up racist caricature.
Lastly, as much as I hate to agree with you on anything, I share your concern about JK Rowling being elevated to some kind of sage. My parents generation reached for Focuault and Baudrillard when sorting out the problems of their day, we are excitedly waiting for the next 144 character soundbite from a children's book writer.