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Comment by ineedasername

3 hours ago

Hmm, this is an odd way to respond now that we’ve cleared up the “entrenched” bit of things yet now have all of these words that are in your comment masquerading as mine!

I think you’ll see my own words did not dress up in loaded language like “dangerous chemicals” and “divisive history”. I won’t say I’ve never said them but in this case no: I was careful and cautious to be neutral in word choice: “chemicals that have destructive and harmful _uses_” and, with that, regulatory considerations. And for the other, again, very carefully I said “information about the government’s own actions and history of the nation”.

See? None of those other words you thought I said and, thinking I’d said them, you placed down like stepping stones. And, once placed, you followed your own laid path and turned back, pointed at me, saying “extremely western” even! But, there you are, so far away, taken there by a path not of my making and yet it seems not quite of your own either?

Whose path then did you follow? Whose words have so surrounded you that they even seem, to you, to come from other people’s mouths as well? Such a storm of words unsourced! You should get rid of those words, whoever’s they are might want them back or not but they are getting in the way of you seeing mine clearly.