Since people want to bring this up. I made that comment once. I had a person asks me why I said that. So, I tried to explain. I got flagged again for my effort. So, I made a thread asking people who thought I was misguided by saying that, "Why is that statement wrong?" I got one eloquent poster with experience telling me nobody knows any particular symptom associated with pedophilia. Beside that person, I got into a 3 hours back-and-forth with 2 people. One was making a false equivalency between Pokémon and MLP. The other was asking me to define basic words. I'm guessing this person was trying to play a game of "Gotcha!" or wanting to play semantics with basic terms. I decided to stop engaging for the night. I hoped to have other people post on the thread to better help me understand the Bronies community. Instead, I found out the next day that the thread was locked.Dragonlayer said:Isn't that because you kept calling them "potential child molesters"? That's not so much "criticism" as "ignorant bollacks".KissingSunlight said:(I won't go in to my recent experience with Bronies. It did consists of 2 posts receiving warnings and a locked thread.)
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The only group no-one is allowed to criticise is whatever group I'm currently associating with. So na-na-na-na-nah!
I don't want to get into the subject of Bronies again. How they tried to change my mind was to censor me. So, I really don't have that much respect for that community now. As for the initial comment, I was expressing an opinion. I now understand there is no fact to support it. I'll just let that matter drop.
How does that connects to the main topic. Most people who engaged me were more interested in making me bad guy for expressing a negative opinion, than they were in trying to correct my misunderstanding on the subject. So, that's why I am asking this question. People are behaving that they shouldn't be criticize. Especially, by someone who are outside of their group.