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“This person has said comments that are cruel/hateful about people like me, therefore they must hate me, therefore I hate them, therefore I am justified in making cruel/hateful comments about them and people like them.” Rinse and repeat.

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"This person has said comments that are cruel/hateful about people like me, therefore they must hate me, therefore I hate them,"

The thing is, I don't even object to this. I certainly wouldn't have been defending Caroline Farrow after reading her tweets. If somebody says something cruel/hateful about me, I guess it's justifiable if I respond in kind.

But if somebody else *speaks* to somebody who said something hateful about me, and I decide they must therefore share all of the same views, yeah, that's ridiculous.

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