That's been my whole issue all along. Noah often writes absurd things. If you take what he says to its logical conclusion, you'll end up with some monstrous conclusions. But I'm not sure that's out of malice or foolishness.
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I agree with you aesthetically but I can’t see much of an practical point. Twitter mob is still gonna Twitter even if they do it under the right kind of label.
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While I agree that people on this site throw the word pedophile around a lot more than they should, and often seem excited to do it, this case seems at least pretty understandable? He works for an org that links up teenagers and pedophiles for "chats."
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Gotta say, the moral distinction between "pedophile" and "pedophile advocate" is not a hill I ever thought someone would die on.
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We've been over this, you're making a strawman here, no one made a specific allegation of abuse against Berlatsky. You don't get to make up your own definitions of words and then condemn other people for not observing them
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Seems pretty clear to me that you were like "methinks the Br*enigs are leading another problematic dirtbag left lynch mob," the details proved you wrong, but now you can't back down, so you're throwing out these dumb semantic arguments like a cloud of squid ink. Very sad!
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This is the same argument conservatives use to defend racism, that because such a Serious Accusation, you can’t accuse someone of being racist unless they’re convicted of a hate crime or recorded using a slur, or whatever evidence. It’s nonsense.
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