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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, I just meant to point out that there’s far more blatant examples. Goblins have been antisemitic caricatures in fantasy for a long time so it’s easy for a bad writer to just regurgitate existing tropes, so a racist writer can use that as a shield. It’s much harder to justify naming your black character after slave imagery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The globins follow a lot of harmful Jewish stereotypes but I’m not sure it’s obvious whether they’re intended as racist caricatures or if it’s just bad writing. It’s not unreasonable to assume that though when you put it beside much more blatant examples, such as calling the black guy “Shacklebolt” and the Asian girl “Cho Chang”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, what the fuck. I have honestly no idea what about my username or post history could have made you so hostile. The last sentence you’re comparing about is literally a tldr of the rest of the comment; everyone’s talking trends between generations and you’re dismissing that (and complaining about entire subsequent generations) based entirely on one person’s individual experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody has ever claimed that every gen x owned a home. There have always been people who can and people who cannot afford a home, but each generation has more people in the can’t-afford group than the previous. At 30, more genx owned a home than millennials, and more millennials than genz.

  The problem you’re having is that everyone else is talking trends and you’re talking personal annecdote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Terfs by definition exclude women and are therefore not feminist. Hate groups often try to legitimise themselves by adopting more reasonable names even when it goes directly against their views, eg “All lives matter” formed specifically to counter the claim that black lives matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Drawing a distinction between privacy and security is kind of nonsense in this context. While they are technically different, they’re only different in the way that an apple and a fruit are different. Privacy is an aspect of security.

  If your privacy was violated in another context you would not feel secure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very different question. A smartphone can to some degree emulate the other devices listed so when people are asked to pick only one device most are naturally going to choose that even if it’s not currently their primary device, and since they could only choose one it’s not useful in determining how many people use other devices.

  From that survey question alone you cannot reasonably claim which device is used most often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's impossible to defend any amount of alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a scenario where you ask someone to defend why they don’t drink but they are the one that is insecure and judgemental. There’s plenty of situations where people drink when they shouldn’t (eg driving) but it’s not quite so common to be in a situation where you must drink but don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I could tell the gnome teleports to a random still-covered empty tile and dies when there’s nowhere left to run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the end game for cancer?

  There isn’t one, it doesn’t matter that the host dies eventually as long as they get to keep growing for now.