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Retinend
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02 May 2014 at 2:31am | IP Logged

Luke, I feel unfairly accused. To me this subculture is just a subculture.
Something out of the ordinary; a curio. The appearance of a language-learning aspect on it
struck me as amusing, if anything, because it was so out of tune with my image of a
language learner.

It's sad that I have to feel as if higher-ups on this forum are discussing whether or not
I need to be "taught a lesson" in my thread as if I'm a naughty child, especially since
the topic does not concern any truly "horrific" content.
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02 May 2014 at 2:49am | IP Logged

I think luke made another rather tongue-in-cheek joke there ...
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02 May 2014 at 3:42am | IP Logged

Retinend wrote:

The topic is sketchy. Today I read some articles from a blog of a kind I don't normally read, called "returnofkings", which is mainly about gender politics from an anti-Feminism point of view.

luke wrote:

We have our own Alpha Females here. I'm not naming names, but you know who you are.

Serpent wrote:

By making this comparison you laugh off/dismiss how disgusting some ideas on that blog are.

luke wrote:

Okay, now I've skimmed it and agree we should kick the OP out of the forum to teach him a lesson.

Retinend wrote:

Luke, I feel unfairly accused.

I don't want to pick on anybody in particular here, but when somebody posts about politics on HTLAL, it generally turns into a fight within a couple of pages at most. I think this happens for two reasons:

1. HTLAL is an international forum, and the members have a huge range of political views. We have some very nice people here who are quite conservative by American standards, and some very nice people who are well to the left even by European standards. As long as we talk about languages, this doesn't cause any problems.

2. On the Internet, sometimes it seems like every discussion will sooner or later turn into an ugly political fight. A discussion about kitting and crochet? It's going to degenerate into angry politics. A discussion about software design? It's going to degenerate into politics, too.

So in theory, HTLAL is a politics-free zone, where we can all discuss languages, and not just rehash the same discussions we could have anywhere else.

I'd ask people to try to get this thread back on topic, but I'm not sure if that would work especially well in this case.

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