Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says "oh you're playing checkers because you hate chess!?". You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)

So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

I can see the original quote being either about a logical fallacy as you're explaining or about entering spaces to confront people about unrelated things. That doesn't bring me any closer to understanding the "checkers" / "waffles" reply though. Is she saying "stay on the topic"? I really don't know.

[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

maybe it's like a kind of tone policing, like "hey we were joking about pancakes and waffles, and now you're raising a serious topic" but in a jokey kind of way

but yeah, it doesn't make sense to me, that's just my imagination stretching to interpret it