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Re: Sealioning

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Asking for proof or data: denying someone's lived experience. Having a debate: sealioning. Providing evidence: mansplaining. Yes I know, each of these terms has a well defined meaning. But that's not how they're used in practice. They are used in games of strategic equivocation. A better read is this post, which frames it as a conflict between people who communicate to share information versus people who are seeking…

You should submit that link as a separate submission. It was a pretty good read.

It was already submitted 5 times and never went anywhere. Nothing from S451 has gotten any traction, except for one post about Hintjens' passing, which was then visiby flagged. Because of S451's role in rescuing LambdaConf from the twitter mob with a fundraiser, they are now on the socjus shitlist, and those links and posts have a habit of disappearing off HN with plausible deniability.

Re: Sealioning

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This seems to be an incredible backdoor propaganda label to stifle logical discussion. It's an appeal to emotions over facts (my personal group's facts are better than your objective facts) and to equate obnoxious lunatics with mature critical thinkers. Don't like the proofs provided? (cause they show you are wrong) Then you must be sealioning, even if it's the first thing you write. Edit: A mature adult does not nee…

Agreed. This feels a lot like the "snowflake" label. A way to terminate a discussion early because you'd rather insult the person than make any actual progress.
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