# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 254
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5363 "2025-06-30T13:48:31Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Sure looks like a factual question to me. And that’s part of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5364 "2025-06-30T13:57:01Z")
Yes; but is that my problem or your problem? (That isn’t a factual question.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5365 "2025-06-30T14:30:29Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Yes; but is that my problem or your problem? Your problem, since it doesn’t conform with how the categories have been defined. And that’s just not my opinion, I linked to the IMHO sticky that confirms it. You might want to expand the category past what it currently is, but that would be an ATMB discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5366 "2025-06-30T15:44:23Z")
It’s no ones “problem” or fault. It’s the fault of the definition of the category. I think all my questions are important ( 😊) doesn’t mean they really are. I’d prefer discussion over _the_ all time perfectly correct answer. But that’s just me. The definition of what FQ is leaves a big window of “what the hell” is that. So, post 2 in FQ is the answer. There’s no disputing it. We all know it to be correct. No 50 page wiki or obscure 19th century cite is necessary. What’s supposed to happen then? No one can _talk_ about it? No one can reveal their experience or opinion? The thread just goes away? That seems counterintuitive to a discussion/message board, to me. Adding, this is not the end all, be all, change-the-world think tank. It’s an on-line chat space. I’m sorry Cecil. But its not as important as we all wanna believe. The biting the ass of what keeps this place going, ya’ know “_people_” and never _ever_ welcoming newcomers is exactly what’s gonna kill the wonderful world of the Dope. Chill out folks. If the rules are vague about FQ, change them. Simple. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5367 "2025-06-30T15:47:34Z")
I see newbies being warmly welcomed often. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5368 "2025-06-30T16:15:56Z")
And Crane’s back at it in the Hamas/Israel MPISMS thread, going out of his way to find the most loaded, anti-Semitic analogy possible to discuss the ongoing war crimes in Gaza. > [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/4630): > > Israel in Gaza dwarfs Lidice as the icon of brutality. When you baselessly compare your opponents to Nazis, that’s Godwinizing. What do you call it when you routinely drag Nazis into unrelated discussions _in order to imply that the Nazis weren’t so bad after all?_ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5369 "2025-06-30T16:23:33Z")
When the people you’re comparing are both genociding, there’s fuckall ‘baseless’ about it. It’s a _poor_ comparison, but it’s hardly baseless. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5370 "2025-06-30T16:35:16Z")
The level of brutality the Israelis are inflicting on Gaza, though horrible, isn’t comparable to the brutality the Nazis inflicted on their occupied territories. They aren’t rounding up entire towns full of people and murdering them all at once. You may argue that Israel has genocidal _intent_, and is just conducting its genocide at a slower pace due to the pressure of world opinion. But if we define “genocide” broadly enough to cover what Israel is doing (which we should, IMO), then there are many other genocides in recent history that Crane could have used as an analogy. If you think it’s plausible he might have picked that particular one for some reason other than being an anti-Semitic troll, I won’t argue the point. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5371 "2025-06-30T16:54:27Z")
There’s some ground between antisemitic trolling and merely using references that are of historic relevance to the Israeli population, I think - as oppised to Belgian Congo or Cambodia. There’s also an element of ‘you should know better’. Especially when Israeli defenders love to wave that particular bloodied shirt around themselves sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5372 "2025-06-30T16:57:00Z")
Oh, good grief. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5373 "2025-06-30T17:33:21Z")
“_Me and my shadow…_” 🎶 🎵 (Not in the cute " oh you like me" way. More stalkerish 🫤) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5374 "2025-06-30T17:48:32Z")
Sadly, the board can not only be your bad, bad, bad posts. [![](https://129841877.cdn6.editmysite.com/uploads/1/2/9/8/129841877/B5PVJBLJXIXAYNIAEQ4BS2QI.jpeg) ](https://129841877.cdn6.editmysite.com/uploads/1/2/9/8/129841877/B5PVJBLJXIXAYNIAEQ4BS2QI.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2025, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5375 "2025-06-30T21:00:10Z")
Wouldn’t that be a big ol’ bore? if you know, you know ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5376 "2025-07-04T10:32:44Z")
The lamest fucking joke possible, made even lamer by being one of Trump’s favorites (i.e. “Pocahontas”): > [@NYC Mayor election thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-election-thread/1020085/252): > > Just think how far we’ve come to have two Black candidates in an NYC mayoral race. Anyway, don’t worry, we’ll get lots more meat out of the data breach, and it won’t all be about Zohran. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5377 "2025-07-04T12:18:05Z")
Yeah, what a stupid fuckin post. I didn’t have @Dr.Strangelove pegged as such a jackass, but I’ll try to pay better attention–is this the level he normally stoops to, or was he drunk? ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5378 "2025-07-04T12:23:14Z")
Scratch a Randian deep enough and you will always find a racist. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5379 "2025-07-04T13:10:23Z")
And in the least surprising development possible, DT joins in for the nothing-story about boxes checked by a teenager, that originated with a white supremacist: > [@Intersectionality and the Oppression Pyramid](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intersectionality-and-the-oppression-pyramid/1018016/281): > > Great example of the oppression hierarchy in action: No one would think it was a nothingburger or make excuses if a white Ugandan identified as African American to try to get a boost in a college application. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5380 "2025-07-04T13:20:52Z")
It’s the usual conservative anti woke crew. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5381 "2025-07-04T14:04:57Z")
Blocking DT has done wonders for my enjoyment of the board. Her tedious reactionary politics would be worth engaging with if she weren’t so blindly dedicated to them; but that’s one brick wall I no longer bang my head against. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5382 "2025-07-04T14:39:10Z")
I don’t get why I should be angry at that post. Seemed pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=253) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=255)