With apologies to our many friends and posters outside the United States... it's time for another one of these! Culture war thread rules apply, and you are permitted to openly advocate for or against an issue or candidate on the ballot (if you clearly identify which ballot, and can do so without knocking down any strawmen along the way). "Small-scale" questions and answers are also permitted if you refrain from shitposting or being otherwise insulting to others here. Please keep the spirit of the law--this is a discussion forum!--carefully in mind.
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Look, demanding "cite?" can be an obnoxious form of argumentation and you are not required to provide one on demand. People here are very prone to (selectively) demanding links to evidence when they don't believe something, but that is the nature of this forum - you are supposed to proactively provide evidence, especially in proportion to the inflammatory nature of your claims.
But I'm not admonishing you here for failing to provide evidence. I'm admonishing you because your response to someone asking you for evidence was "Well, I do real work, not like you worthless paper-pushers, I'm too busy with my real and valuable life and family to care about what I write here."
And, you know, good for you. Spending time with your daughter is undoubtedly a better use of your time than arguing with Internet randos. But don't jump into an argument with inflammatory claims, and when challenged, play this "I'm too busy and I have a real life" card. That is really obnoxious.
Fair. I had planned just to stay silent and move on, but I was angry at his annoying responses. And I am legitimately annoyed at myself for spending so much time and energy on something inconsequential.
Won’t happen again. I will say formatting his response in such a way as “I demand you respond to me, if you don’t you don’t belong here.” Is way, way more obnoxious than what I wrote.
Also, I’ll also say that stating a culture eats cats is not inflammatory per se. I don’t think pointing out that some European cultures eat horse or certain East Asian cultures eat dog is inflammatory. Or that some cultures eat bugs.
I eat guinea pig and rabbit, for example. Lots of people think of them as pets and think of me as a bit monstrous for eating them.
There’s a tremendous amount of diversity in the world in regards to diet. It’s not inflammatory at all to point that out, and it’s certainly not inflammatory to point out recent arrivals from other countries being their habits with them.
Is it the combination of the two that is automatically inflammatory?
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