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Netstack was the only person I ever felt compelled to block on this site. In one of his replies to a post about the over-representation of Jews I made a while ago he launched into an odd ad hominem tirade —
I hope his admin privileges are double or triple checked by others because it would not appear to me that his judgment is objective on certain contentious subjects. Congrats to others though.
Oh, I remember that. I felt proud of my phrasing at the time; in hindsight, it was more about the feeling of righteous indignation. I definitely got carried away, and I’m sorry for making personal attacks.
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"You are arguing in a way that you would not accept from others, and seems objectively bad" seems like an entirely fair criticism.
Somewhat on-topic: check your PMs. :V
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Actually, that the argument was bad isn’t the problem. (Judaism is not skin-deep but an ideology and culture, yet Net’s reply instead talked about “skin color”. And my own conclusion was “White Americans are so underrepresented [yet] they are the ones who face the most ruthless black propaganda against their demographic”, ergo the charge of hypocrisy makes no sense.) The problem is instead in the clearly emotional outburst by Net; telling someone to “have some self respect” or saying “behold the ubermensch” displayed an inability to handle the discussion maturely.
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I've said this many times in defense of different mods: mods should be allowed to have fun and play full contact.
Nothing in the quoted statement, despite it being excepted by an unfriendly interlocutor, strikes me as out of bounds. It's not an ad hominem, it's an ethos argument.
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