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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 January 2014 09:24:23AM 18 points [-]

Uhm, after reading the article again, I think you are right. It was written as: "I feel uncomfortable about X."

Yet I somehow perceived it completely differently. I wonder why exactly. Probably because it was long and not going to the point (which made the real point less obvious) and contained a lot of keywords typical for a specific tribe (so I assumed it was speaking in the name of the tribe).

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2014 02:54:43AM 14 points [-]

Also because members of that tribe frequently argue that making them uncomfortable should be a punishable offense.

Comment author: ESRogs 08 January 2014 12:22:50AM 0 points [-]

Ah that makes sense. Maybe also because it was worded as a response to a particular tribe (ours), it may have been natural to assume that it was positioned as coming from a particular other tribe.