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by Tiltowait-- 2172 days ago
Slaying sacred cows is all fun and games and everyone loves South Park for it.

Right up until the point at which your own sacred cows are slaughtered. Then suddenly it's not funny any more. Blaspheming the sacred has long been grounds for jesters to be fired or beheaded, even though that is the jester's role in society.

It's still funny, you just don't like being ridiculed. Which is proof positive that your sacred cows must be ridiculed as much as possible.
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Dylan16807 2171 days ago
That seems really reductive. Not all campaigns of slaying sacred cows are the same, and there are a lot of ways it can be biased, some of them bad.

> just don't like being ridiculed. Which is proof positive that your sacred cows must be ridiculed

"You're being defensive, therefore you're wrong." That's nothing more than an insulting fallacy, where the person saying it gets to feel morally superior and always right. There's no possible response, either they admit defeat or they 'prove you right'.

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Tiltowait-- 2171 days ago
>Not all campaigns of slaying sacred cows are the same

Yeah. Your sacred cows are not OK to ridicule, but when it's The Other, definitely their sacred cows should be ridiculed, and it's hilarious.

But what happens when you get classified in the Outgroup? Suddenly the shoe's on the other foot and you don't like it one bit.

Maybe tolerance and understanding towards The Other is the answer. Whether The Other is communists or people who live in middle America.

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Dylan16807 2170 days ago
Again, you're just being insulting. "If you object, then you MUST be motivated by it being 'your cow' and NEVER correct" is a very stupid thing to say. Stop being so smug and think it through! If one person goes after cows ABCDEF, and the other person goes after cows ACCCDC, there's a significant difference between the two. Someone complaining about the latter is not automatically wrong, unjustifiably mad that their cows got slayed.
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nmfisher 2171 days ago
I’ve always taken that to be the implicit lesson - that there should be no such thing as a sacred cow.

Every opinion must be open for discussion, debate and yes, even ridicule.

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dehrmann 2171 days ago
Like the time they did Scientology and Isaac Hayes quit?
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