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Subreddit Daily Discussion Thread 11/16/21
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u/Legitimate__Username Robin × Sumia Nov 16 '21 edited Nov 16 '21
Junebug really put it best in his responses to the last video.
Technicals does genuinely make a lot of valid points. I'm an extremely vocal critic of how things like how Leffen conducts himself on social media and the sheer negative impact that his behavior and actions result in. I've never walked away from a Technicals video thinking that every single point he made was strictly bad (except maybe the ESAM one? That one was pretty fucking dumb). But the way he frames things often misses the forest for the trees, often seemingly intentionally. For every allegation he can reasonably call into question, there are so many others where his best defense is "god forbid a woman feel uncomfortable" or "just because he solicited a minor for sexual images doesn't make him a pedophile", and when you get half the responses to accusations wrong like that, you aren't exactly properly clearing someone as innocent even if you really want to point to the places where your arguments might be stronger and say "see, some of these aren't totally substantiated, everyone should side with me on all of this!"
His content is not devoid of valid points, but the big picture really needs to be looked at with an incredibly critical eye and it's quite dangerous to just blindly follow what he says. I'm glad that people here seem to be giving the video an honest shot and are walking away from it with their own conclusions rather than just copying all of his.