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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5995998" data-attributes="member: 54877">Dang, really must spread some XP! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Only thing I want to add to that is that if said Grand Unified Theory of Ugly Shirts manages to drag in some really offensive concepts in the course of its bastardized, critical inquiry, then this is going to tend to drag the whole discussion down into the mud for everyone.  It can't help but.  You've got people coming along with experiences that, to them, match the theory, but perhaps unaware of the offensive concepts.  And you've got opponents of the theory having to deal with the yucky parts while trying to talk about whatever is worthwhile or salvagable in the rest of it.  This will tend to make them cranky. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> And then you'll have people wearing said ugly shirts because they like them, or not wearing them because they dislike them--both innocent of this whole discussion, but tarred by it nonetheless.  It's not their fault that the shirts are now more than clothing, but also a symbol.  Unfair, but that's life.</blockquote>

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