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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I'm always a little peeved by these "what if" inverse or otherwise contrasted scenarios, whether it's about Japanese restaurants or Christian houses of worship. It's a bit annoying because the situation isn't about the Japanese cuisine or Pearl Harbor or Christians, or even the minority liberal media.
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I think that they're a subtle way of changing the focus of the subject away from something that actually happened and presumably has verifiable information surrounding it to something that only exists in someone's imagination and thus can't really be argued against.
For instance: Let's not talk about what's happening in reality, let's talk about those mean old libs that exist in Pan's imagination. Because the way they're acting is just shameful, so shameful that I have a hard time showing sympathy towards people who actually exist outside of Pan's imagination who may or may not have a legitimate gripe with things
that are actually occurring in reality.