As a debater, Mr. Dibble has a rather unpleasant MO. He takes people’s words, twists them beyond recognition, interprets them in the worst, most uncharitable way possible, and then acts as though he’s divined his opponent’s only real meaning. He is, to put it bluntly, a smarmy, dishonest piece of fuck.
Case in point. In the ridiculous GD Netflix thread I posted the following:
Consider the bolded ‘someone’. What is the race of that someone? In the GD thread, as it turns out, the ‘someone’ was a black man. A black man at Netflix complained that a white man had said nigger, even though he said it in an anti-racist context.
However, it should be obvious that if the ‘someone’ had been white, or asian, or anything else, I would still feel the same way. It should be obvious that I’m not attacking the complainant’s race, I’m attacking their oversensitivity, and oversensitivity is a character trait that can be present in anyone of any race.
So, you might think what I said was stupid, or illogical, but it’s pretty clearly not racist, right? Well, not according to Mr. Dibble. In the equally ridiculous Pit Wypipo thread, Mr. Dibble wrote:
Mr Dibble is alleging two things:
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When I said ‘culled for the good of the herd’, I was being 100% serious.
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When I said people who complain about racist language regardless of context are “too thin skinned to survive in the modern world and should probably be culled for the good of the herd”, the fact that this description happened, in this particular instance, to be applicable to a black Netflix executive means it could only ever be applicable to black people.
In response, I am alleging three things:
- I wasn’t being serious. Of course I don’t literally want to see people murdered for being too sensitive. What the fuck?
- Again, what the fuck?
- Mr. Dibble is a lying, dishonest piece of shit.
First question for the group: How did Mr. Dibble characterise my initial comment?
A) Fairly.
B) Unfairly.
C) I don’t care. This is all stupid and you both suck.
If you could restrict your answers to A or B, I’d appreciate it. C is pretty much given at this point.
Anyway, moving on. I was pretty outraged that Mr. Dibble had, with a straight face, accused me of wanting to lynch black people for being uppity. I then posted the following:
Did this cross the line? In retrospect, yes. Mr. Dibble may look like the kind of skeevy fuck who would bribe a gaggle of emaciated street urchins to pee on his face in a back alley behind an Arby’s and then run away without paying them, but I probably shouldn’t have pointed it out. However, in my defence, I was pretty fucked off about being called a massive racist who wants to lynch uppity black people, so I may have let my temper get away from me a little.
Here’s how Mr. Dibble characterised my little faux pas:
For the unfamiliar, doxxing is when a person digs up private information about someone (ie. their address, phone number, or place of employment) and posts it publicly for the purpose of facilitating their harassment. Doxxing is a pretty serious allegation. It’s a bannable offence in most places.
Second question for the group: Did my posting Mr. Dibble’s picture count as doxxing?
I contend that it’s not doxxing for one simple reason: Mr. Dibble put the picture online himself in the Straight Dope Picture Thread specifically so other people could see what he looks like. Maybe I shouldn’t have pointed out that he looks like the kind of guy who would roofie a twelve year old’s ice-cream (or that he looks like how a wet fart through a trombone sounds, or that he looks like he could glum the sparkle off a diamond) but I didn’t have to go hunting around for his picture. It may have been a dick move, but it’s not doxxing.
Now, I’ve tried explaining both these things to Mr. Dibble, but it’s like trying to explain to a bluebottle that the window’s open. I’m not having any luck. That’s why I’ve created this thread, so we can try and explain it to him together. Also, so we can figure out once and for all if Dibble is crazy and, if so, what kind of crazy is he? Is he always this insanely dishonest? And most importantly of all, why is he such a fucking prick?