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December 28, 2017 2:23 pm at 2:23 pm
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Neville ChaimBerlin
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Let me give an example more near and dear to you:
The “How do we explain to girls not to light the menorah?” was an obvious troll thread. The poster probably is of the opinion that girls shouldn’t light, but is PRETENDING to be stupider than he/she really is and pretending to be unaware that most don’t hold that way. If that poster had just started a thread called “I don’t think girls should light the menorah,” that wouldn’t be trolling; there’s no deception. That just voicing an opinion that might happen to rile some people up.