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Delusions of a Protocol [On Jay Graber's transphobia and the unfulfilled promises of the AT protocol] (azhdarchid.com)

submitted 5 months ago by recursive_recursion@piefed.ca to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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On vaporware as an ideological product.

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think it's a riff on an old meme I don't quite remember. But the idea is like,

people are doing an innocuous thing
something declares that they thus must hate dubiously related thing

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.