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comment by veen

    It's important in one's life to learn the distinction between an argument from logic and an argument from passion.

Yeah, it makes more sense to ignore emotion-driven arguments as you can't combat it anyway. It's the very reason I avoid the religious argument or brush it off when I'm asked. I've tried it for a while but it leads to heated arguments or to me giving up using logic against the passion-driven person, who are often remarkably good at pulling nonsensical arguments out of their ass.

At the same time, I'm passionate beyond logic on more than one aspect of life. You can't use your sword of logic on everything.

    There are plenty of arguments about privilege that don't start from "you are not a minority therefore you are oppressive by definition."

Yeah, at the very least this parody (it has to be, right?) made me rethink my 'privilege' a bit. The problem I have with it is the collateral damage of people who believe it.