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RE: Deflection and Taboo words... Troll, Racist, Conspiracy Theorist, etc.
Oh, Racist, Conspiracy Theorist, Leftist, Rightist, Nazi, Republican, Democrat, Muslim, Terrorist....
Labels in general can be used this way. If the intention is to shame, insult, etc and otherwise deflect then they are all pretty much the same thing.
Simply words people use to try to shift you to defending your character and/or hiding rather than paying attention to the actual issue they are trying to distract you from.
It could be the total opposite. Maybe they are trying to point out the peoples behaviour and why they got labelled. You can only go at a person that much. For every action there is a reaction. I dont say what @gavvet did was right but I have seen the poisin in the chatrooms been spread since last year. These people keep feeding their vengeance and am not open to address the real issue. They love the reaction they get and it makes them feel more powerful. I have seen their pools grow. They not truly interested in being decent at all. There are ways to communicate issues, lead people by pointing out their mistakes directly to them in private but these guys love to attack to show their importance. Alot of people left because of them.
"Truth" is based on the information you have, we never have all the information, only the side which we pick to defend.
Oh yeah. It could be totally out of context as far as what @gavvet is doing. It was very much ad hominems from him and others in the comments there.
I truly did not make the post to bash @gavvet but the comment section on that post and the post itself were very convenient currently relevant examples of such techniques being employed.
I know nothing about the topic OF that post other than what I read there and in its comments. So I have nothing to bash. I also have never hung out in the #price channel on steemit.chat
I think it is the natural man in all of us coming out, if we have to keep defending our name and honour for months. They are continuesly looking for something to attack him on. If it was spread to all authors it wont be a problem but they have a personal vendetta with a few which they would like to sink. As soon as they sink one that will not be enough they will find a new one. They are driving more people away than helping the platform to grow.
I am not saying you are bashing @gavvet. I am pointing out why he might have used name branding. We need to try and get all the information from all angles before we form an opinion.
There are examples of him using it incorrectly in the comments. Yet the original article you are correct, it depends upon context. He is meeting some people simply challenging something he said with the term "troll".... "Ahh another person took the bait", etc.
In those cases the context is available. The original article the dialogs that people had in #price and such are not.
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