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JigsawTDC posted...

Neither? All this information is easily accessible. I guess it's easier to resort to ad hominem instead of addressing the substance of a post though. Have at it, Zeusy-poo!

What substance? And, for that matter, what ad hominem?

Your "Oh, well technically!" is weak as fuck when the term was originated as a reference to a Nazi war tactic. The claim "Well, you know, Hitler didn't create it. And supposedly he didn't even like it!" is undercut by the fact that it was, again, created and used to refer to a Nazi war tactic. But hey, after this maybe you can pull a "Well, acktually!" to explain why you feel minstrel shows weren't actually racist because some of some weird semantic technicality that exists in your mind that rest of society doesn't acknowledge. Meanwhile for the rest of us -- including the person who used it -- the term is tied at the hip with EXACTLY what you associate the term with when it's mentioned. And that term is very deliberately used for that association.

And whether you copied somebody else's argument word-for-word or originally posted it under another name, it's still a terrible argument that's no better than the first time it was claimed.

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