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It's been over 10 years, and not interesting, but because you asked: it was a political group, and I was replying to a group member who was talking about how love is all you need. I tried to make the point that love may be an essential ingredient, but is not all you need, certainly not for political change (I think I used some Chomsky quotes to that effect...), and that group member essentially straw manned that into advocating hate (which I really wasn't). Knowing how I was back then, I probably was being a Dwight Schrute about it, as in "bzzzt, false, love is NOT all you need, because A, B and C".

So we were both irritated and talked back back and forth, ceding no ground, and suddenly an admin banned me without warning. It was the suddenness more than anything that got to me; I felt misrepresented and censored, and I just wanted to be able to re-read it all to gain closure, if you will. If I could find the file today I would probably cringe at what I wrote, or at least how I wrote it, but back then I nodded and thought "yup, I'm correct", haha.



Totally feel that, I got a life-time ban from a huge programming sub on Reddit for being rude to a person who was obviously just copying-and-pasting their software homework on the forum.




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