babark: You think I saw the comment and was "Hahah! What an idiot, let me see if he follows things that validate my opinion that he's a moron"? Even if that were true, how does that make me insecure about my beliefs? I was just trying to reassure myself that the guy had to be joking.
This is literally what you did though, you admitted to it. You admit to it with this next line, too:
babark: Do you find some issue with me calling attention to its absolute moronic absurdity?
Do you find some issue with me calling attention to your absolute moronic absurdity? That's what I'm doing, I just do it to people's faces instead of behind their backs because I'm not afraid of my opinions.
babark: I suppose if your line of thought is "These people are the dregs of society and we shouldn't call attention to them" I can understand that, but unfortunately, I don't follow that line of thought, because such beliefs have become too common now, and we need to go back to unnormalising them, basically pointing and laughing at them.
So, you're saying we should start mocking people for their beliefs simply because you don't hold them. How about you engage with them yourself rather than taking what they said and hiding away in a forum to mock them where they cannot defend themselves?
babark: I'm all for "having a conversation" and "not dismissing peoples opinions out of hand" and whatever, but for someone like this, I fail to see how anything I could ever say to them would change their mind. It's the self-imposed isolationist bubbles I talked about earlier. It'd need "Jewish person rescues him and his family from a building on fire" levels to get this guy back on track to maybe thinking of them as equal human beings.
You're not though. You're not having a conversations with them, and you are dismissing their opinions out of hand. Hence everything you're saying here.
Edit: At least tinyE has the audacity to say something where I can read it. That's how it is done.
