IRL not all communication is verbal. Regardless of any idealised notion of online discussion boards there will always be people trying to push some bullshit that doesn’t deserve anything but a contemptuous down vote. Sometimes you just have to scowl at fuckwits and walk away because you reasonably suspect that: a) the under lying motivation for their reasoning is entirely sectarian; b)they didn’t arrive at their opinion by their own reasoning; c)you can’t easily unpick a lifetime of racist/sexist propaganda in one chat. etc etc.
IRL not all communication is verbal. Regardless of any idealised notion of online discussion boards there will always be people trying to push some bullshit that doesn’t deserve anything but a contemptuous down vote. Sometimes you just have to scowl at fuckwits and walk away because you reasonably suspect that: a) the under lying motivation for their reasoning is entirely sectarian; b)they didn’t arrive at their opinion by their own reasoning; c)you can’t easily unpick a lifetime of racist/sexist propaganda in one chat. etc etc.