General Moderation Topic

[FGD135]

Re: Guillotines

I think everything has been already discussed, more or less:

Alternatives for guillotines

Thanks for making this topic. If you can put an end to all the hand-wringing and pearl-clutching concern here over @doctorow’s use of the guillotine image you’d do us all a great service. This can also be a good reference topic to avoid the derails caused when these delicate souls drop to their fainting couches. To start, though, we need to be clear on: the concept that he and others here are trying to represent with the image what his and others opinion of the concept is whether and w…

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On the topic of guillotines and false equivalencies

No, I think you misunderstand him. What you read as him “denying that someone could use a guillotine meme for any other purpose” is in fact him trying to restrict the frame of what he is objecting to specifically to the original context as he sees it, that of objecting to the idea of ambiguous deniable attack memes in a more public context. The statement the borderer challenged was a statement opposing adopting Trumpian tactics as defined by Kris_Asard. The full context, starting from the Kris…

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But that’s me. If there is still the need, we can unlock the old threads or start anew with a fresh thread.