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> I wasn't, as I clearly laid out in my last reply.

> someone else jumped in

Yes you were wrong, and and that other person was correct.

The point of all of this, is that they were trying to say the following, which someone else clarified as : 'if their use of scare quotes is to express doubt that "overrepresentation" is a good justification for discrimination'.

I think it is pretty clear that the original poster was saying something similar to that.

Multiple other people here are not interpreting the statement how you are interpreting it. So to everyone else, it was clear, and you seem to be the one mis-interpreting.

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> Yes you were wrong, and and that other person was correct.

No, I was not wrong. If you actually read the thread, you would see that there was no misunderstanding. Continuing to reply isn't going to change that.

> Multiple other people here are not interpreting the statement how you are interpreting it. So to everyone else, it was clear, and you seem to be the one mis-interpreting.

And by multiple people, you mean you and the one other? Both who are ideologically opposed to my arguments. Shocking.

> I think it is pretty clear that the original poster was saying something similar to that.

It's clear that the original poster was saying exactly what they wrote.

So as I said, what exactly are you trying to accomplish here? Because you're multiple replies in, and have accomplished precisely nothing. You've jumped in to make your own little interpretation of someone else's interpretation of someone else's comment. Are you seriously oblivious to how ridiculous this is?

"Both who are ideologically opposed to my arguments."

I assume you're talking about me. I am curious about this. Which of your arguments have I expressed ideological opposition towards? The only ideology I've expressed, I believe, is that overrepresentation is not an acceptable justification for discrimination. Otherwise I've pointed out mistakes in your thinking and writing.

Are you aware your post history is viewable?

There are no mistakes in my thinking or writing. You made incorrect assumptions and then ran with them, which is funny because that's what you accused me of.

I am. I'm still curious about what I've said that you think is ideological.

There were several mistakes, at least in your writing, which are well-outlined in my post history.

There are no mistakes in my thinking or writing. You made incorrect assumptions, which are well-outlined in your writing, and then ran with them, which is funny because that’s what you accused me of.

Are we going to keep going, or should we just stop?

What did I say which was ideological?

> Both who are ideologically opposed to my arguments.

I don't really care either way on this topic acceptance criteria in schools. I just don't like it when people misunderstand other people's arguments and refuse to accept reasonable clarifications.

> have accomplished precisely nothing

You could have just accepted the reasonable clarification, with WhoOhWhyQ said, which is "overrepresentation is not an acceptable justification for discrimination", and gone on from there.

> to how ridiculous this is?

You could have just gone with the clarification which was helpfully offered. No ridiculousness necessary.

No clarifications were needed because there was no misunderstanding. You've created a misunderstanding out of thin air, and then spent multiple replies trying to defend it.

At this point it’s quite clear that you really just want to have the last word. You haven’t contributed anything of substance to this thread, but will somehow feel emotionally fulfilled if you have the last comment.

So go ahead. Reply and tell me how wrong I am again. It will completely validate everything I just wrote, but I am interested to see whether you’re willing to do that in order to have the last comment in the thread. My prediction is that you lack the self control to stop yourself from replying, but we shall see :)

> So go ahead. Reply. It will completely validate everything I just wrote, but I am interested to see whether you’re willing to do that in order to have the last comment in the thread. My prediction is that you lack the self control to stop yourself from replying, but we shall see :)

I'd recommend that you read up on hacker news's terms of service, because your comments like this seem to frequently ignore them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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> My prediction is that you lack the self control to stop yourself from replying, but we shall see :)

And with that lovely validation, I am out.

Why are you this afraid to actually address the arguments?

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