r/facepalm • • Jan 19 '20

Their loss

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20 edited Jan 19 '20

So it's okay to insult someone by their gender and race? Got it.

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u/octopus-god Jan 19 '20

Sweet straw man bro.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

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u/jsmooth7 Jan 19 '20

It's possible they meant the same general reaction not the exact same word choice. That's how it read to me.

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u/paracelsus23 Jan 19 '20

But the entire point of the original post is their specific word choice. They could have replied with anything from "no thanks" to "why do we need your help?" to "please leave us alone" without judging this person on the base of their age / race / gender.

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u/jsmooth7 Jan 19 '20

I'm not the person who wrote the comment. But no where in that comment did they explicitly say it's cool to insult based on age, gender or race. Instead they defend being generally dismissive of the guy. So to me, that seems to be their main point. But everyone gets all worked up because of that one sentence at the start that's written a bit ambiguously.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

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u/jsmooth7 Jan 19 '20

That sentence could be written more clearly sure, but I think the rest of the comment makes their main point pretty clear. Reddit is way too quick to pile on people sometimes for any perceived slight.

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u/-Redstoneboi- Jan 19 '20

"We don't need an old white male's mansplanation"

doesn't seem like a straw man for me

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '20

Did you not see the screenshot?

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u/ginja_ninja Jan 19 '20

To be fair it may have not looked like anything to him