[Andrew H.]

Originally Posted by David Marseilles

I'd disagree point-by-point, but you clearly haven't read anything else I've written, so why would I think you'd read this response?

I've read everything you've written. I just disagree with it.

Suffice to say for the sake of others, I have not suggested that a user of any platform is less discerning than an another. ifanatics are those well-known group of hyper vigilant Apple defenders, not Apple users. Nor have I insulted any MR member, making me an increasingly small minority in this thread.

Yes you have, as I explained clearly

I find your buttressing of the racial spectre with a strawman argument all the more offensive, both to myself, and to victims of actual racism. It's akin to playing the nazi card. Even if you add a caveat, you guarantee that all anyone hears is the word itself, not the argument.

Then stop stereotyping! That's the problem with your argument, with terms like ifanatics and kindleistas (and phandroids, for that matter). If you stereotype and then don't understand why that's a problem, people are going to explain it in racial terms.

I've now spoken my piece on that matter. There is a difference between a real and thoughtful point about a clear and present sociological phenomenon and a platform flame, but that distinction is clearly lost.

Your point was neither clear, nor thoughtful, and I was not the only person to point this out.

Given that, any mod so inclined has my full blessing to lock this thread down. People interested in productive disagreement, and therefore in conversation, don't dangle racism. Either way, I'm adding my own thread to my ignore list.

People who stereotype and then pretend that that's not what they are doing - or that it's not bad - are going to have to deal with having the problems of stereotyping explained to them using the best known examples.