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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 4, 2023

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We have a mod, @Amadan, openly and repeatedly refusing to respond to this user's arguments because, (to paraphrase) 'you're only making these points because you hate "da joos" and think they're "lizard people"' (which is just as stupid inane as "muh freeze peach").

That's not correct and I have certainly responded with more than "stop whining about Da Joos" before. It's true I rarely give him much of a response anymore because he always posts the same things and when people do tackle his specific claims, he fades and comes back a short time later with the same arguments pretending the previous conversations never happened (something to pay attention to, if, as you imply, you care about the quality of someone's argumentation). This makes his threads a kind of Holocaust Denial Groundhog Day.

Note that this is not an invitation for you to argue with me about Jews or SS's posts. I don't care if you think my responses are inadequate or I don't engage to the degree you or SS would like.

But we clearly do not prohibit people from "Noticing"-posting, as many people do it. We don't prohibit people from talking about their problems with Jews or women or blacks or their personal dating life or sexual hangups or how much they hate liberals. We have told people who keep hammering one theme over and over again to stop trying to make this place their personal soapbox or therapy group. SS is not being threatened with banning because his arguments are bad or because they offend people. He's being threatened with banning because Joo-posting is all he's here for, and he's clearly not about "testing his ideas."

I'm not looking to argue with you at all, I think you're on the right side of this issue and I'm a lurker at heart. I'm complaining that otherwise articulate commenters are doing the written equivalent of repeating what their opponent is saying in a stupid voice.

You and other replies are pretty convincing that (this particular pattern of) single issue posting is no good, but there must be a better response than this. I don't remember you responding to his arguments in the past, (I'm sure you did and I didn't pay enough attention to usernames). But claiming your opponent is lying about their motives and presenting their argument as a miss-spelled jeer stands out here (it wouldn't stand out anywhere else I've come across).

That said, I appreciate that you don't care what I think of your responses, I enjoy that this place gives lurkers a chance to feel part of it. Occasionally that means we blurt out or frustrations before crawling back under our rocks.

It's true I rarely give him much of a response anymore because he always posts the same things and when people do tackle his specific claims, he fades and comes back a short time later with the same arguments pretending the previous conversations never happened

I think this would be the reason to ban an account rather than single-issue posting. Posting gish gallop manifestos and then retreating into the shadows when someone takes the effort to debunk, only to reappear when the coast is clear, is bad faith participation. Focusing on a single issue, on the other hand, is something you could accuse many people here of.

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