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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2522 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Old Handsign Meaning "OK" Triggers Girl Who Once Saw a Pepe Meme Doing It

A skilled rhetorician is one who can answer and defeat the argument of the opponent. A dishonest rhetorician is one who deflects, demurs, and ignores the arguments he can't win.

Your argument was that 4chan should be allowed to use offensive language because in a perfect world, no one would be offended by language. By your own assertion, those who excel at offensiveness must struggle harder, rather than those who are offended appreciating the moral right to be offended. Yet when asked for examples of how the process of linguistic change is usually painless, you are silent as fuck.

You're right of course. The United NiXXer College Fund is a well known niXXer charity, the KXke Defamation League keeps the Ashkenazi from prejudicial violence and one of my buddies in Los Angeles has a string of very successful gXXk restaurants because we live in a perfect world where language has no power.

    Whose glass was broken because some people started throwing up 'OK' ?

I love this style of rhetoric, too. "I'm sorry, I'm too stupid to understand your argument therefore everyone else is, too." It's like anti-logos. And the dumb thing is, you don't even see the counterargument fucking coming. it's like

"Hi, there. I'm gonna set up a Godwin's Law trap where the fucking name of the counterargument is out there in plain view. Care to step in it?"

"sure! Because I'm so blinded by my need to defend the rights of anyone to offend everyone that I'm not even going to consider historical precedent!"

"Great. Have some Nazis. Thank you, drive through."

And I'm truly sorry to have to bat you around like a fucking mouse, but jesus fucking christ, language can be offensive otherwise what would be the point? You are taking the logical position that those parts of linguistics we disagree with we should ignore as if it wasn't a statement of deep ignorance and you should feel bad.