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• comfy@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve come across some people who have no idea what “sealioning” even means. There used to be a hb user “Ulysses” or something, like three years ago, who accused me of doing it after I replied to their reply to my reply, and that’s the only conversation we’d ever had. I pulled up the definition of sealioning and the comic which the word originated from, and they just say “no that’s not true, stop sealioning”.

  I feel like some people just think sealioning means “this person keeps replying to my posts”, as if conversations on a public forum are somehow uncalled for, or unusual.

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  • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a real thing, for sure, but more often than not is used as a conversation terminator.

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    • BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The sealion in the original comic is completely correct, which makes me very suspicious of anyone who dismisses someone for “sealioning” and as you say, it usually is just used as an excuse not to engage with what someone is saying.

      The sealion in the comic overheard someone being racist against them, and stepped in to say, “Hey, why are you being racist?” And for some reason is wrong because… they’re persistent? Or because they’re annoying? How is that not literally just every “anti-woke” argument?

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      • Cowbee@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agreed! They take issue more with the argument style to dismiss the substance.

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