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Your comment was perfectly ok until this part:

>there’s no need to denigrate the special place that IHaD has in our society out of some hipster-esque desire to demonstrate true fandom.

You're imputing a lot of motives based on nothing in the parent comment.



A4E seem to take it okay. That it was a funny image was half the reason I included that part.

Chillax.


> You're imputing a lot of motives based on nothing in the parent comment.

To be fair, OP is responding to an ambiguity. Was GP's point that "I Have a Dream" is great and it's a shame that the wider public doesn't know more of MLK's great speeches? Or was the point that "I Have a Dream" is subpar when compared to the other speeches and thus misrepresents his output?

tldr; Was GP saying "I Have a Dream" is the "Beethoven's 5th" of speeches, or "Ravel's Bolero" of speeches?

Upshot-- OP is not being generous by jumping on the more divisive interpretation. However, since it is a valid interpretation OP's lack of generosity is based on something and not nothing.

Fin.


You have to work really hard to twist that comment into meaning that speech is subpar. That ambiguity is just not there.




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