If everything is pointless why are you expressing your opinion and bothering to debate me on it ? That is a highly self defeating approach to nihilism ! <| sep |> Please tell me this is a joke <| sep |> Is that what they mean when someone ' s got cat like reflexes ? <| sep |> Shitposters and bigots are widely downvoted and derided . They are also attention seekers and trolls and responding to their nonsense only brings them more of the attention they seek . I agree though , bigoted positions should be denounced and at the same time valid criticism should be encouraged . The trouble is that people have a hard time telling the difference and often valid criticism can be mixed with shitty racism and bigotry with further muddies the water . Possibly wellmeaning , but misguided , people calling out valid criticism as bigoted makes actual discussion impossible and we ' re left with loudmouth bigots saying whatever they want , compassionate people trying to clean up the mess and distance themselves from the bigots , and people with an actual nuanced position and something of value to say getting drowned out by the noise .