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I'm sorry, are you making some sort of offensive joke or do you really think the world works in such stereotypes and prejudices?

Rave people are "brightly colored and fidgety" ?? A polished entrepreneur is incapable of ordering in a low class bar?

Jesus F Christ.

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We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. If it were just one comment, I'd post a warning instead, but you've been doing it a lot, and it seems to have been a problem for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20753535 (Aug 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20330020 (July 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18621993 (Dec 2018)

That's not cool.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I enjoy how you jump to the defense of ravers and entrepreneurs and in the same sentence call a roadhouse located in Idaho "low class". There's something very poetic about this cognitive dissonance.

It's funny how the most "holier than thou" people are usually the biggest hypocrites as well.

I'm intentionally using extreme examples of people who are highly committed to the scene they have embedded themselves in just like TFA interviewed the most extreme members of "internet people" they could find. Take a minute to think before immediately reacting with your anti-bias bias.

Most ravers I know are perfectly capable of ordering a beer. If they're getting stared at in that scenario it's purely due to their appearance and mannerisms, not their inability to interact socially.

Raves are social events by definition. So someone who goes to them is likely to have at least some capacity for in-person interaction.

(Beer is often sold at raves btw - although many really serious raver types won't touch alcohol at a rave.)

I think you need to get in more. These types of characters certainly exist, and incongruous juxtapositions are often entertaining and sometimes enlightening.

people are also prismatic in identity and adaptation. though, playing against type is also commonly performative. you're both suggesting a kind of simplistic human form

You're right, instead of using hyperbole to emphasize their point they should have just highlighted how every human being is complex and nuanced instead. Surely that would have done it.

The point as it stands is inappropriate and ultimately wrong. Or are you saying rationalization of poorly-thought-out lines of argument trumps respecting people in all their complexity?

Nothing I've said precludes the possibility of a prismatic and adaptive identity, nor surprising your audience.

Nor did I say having a deep, single or inflexible identity or persona is necessarily a bad thing.

You're missing the point; the hyperbole is used to illustrate how "person of Domain A" and "person of Domain B" may not have even basic levels of overlap within a given domain.

No, that point is clear, it's just callous and disrespectful.

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