# The ZPG Zealot handshake thread party extravaganza

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 29, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713 "2016-06-29T16:14:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713/244 "2016-07-01T19:37:58Z")

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> [@Johanna](#):
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> I just instinctively feel uncomfortable to see a crowd dogpiling a single individual at such length; it’s been going on like this for several years. Can’t help feeling uncomfortable at mass pile-ons on lone individuals, even if they habitually say foolish shit, quite apart from the clear merits of the arguments refuting their foolish shit.

Well, I do think there’s a better than 50% chance she’s just a troll, based on posts like this:

> [@ZPG Zealot: A troll too far](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-a-troll-too-far/567621/177):
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> Why do you think I was so offended by the gesture? I was not a prostitute, but they were treating me like one. It was highly insulting. That’s why the gesture is so disgusting. You can be a perfectly respectable woman but some asshole comes around sticking out his dirty hand and someone can see it and wonder if you are for sale. It simply not right. In retrospect, I sometimes wish I had stabbed some of those men, but the past cannot undone. I fight so that other young women do not have to face that humiliation.

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