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.
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.
I don’t understand the “waffles” comment though, even after reading the context.
I think it’s a riff on an old meme I don’t quite remember. But the idea is like,
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.
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.
Non sequiturs is how humans operate.
No technology will fix that.
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