really some people

[Malevicton]

You should never dehumanize anyone.
But you can totally laugh at the idea that they're acting like a basement dwelling stereotype.

So you shouldn't dehumanize someone, but you can make a caricature of them? Seems like a semantic difference to me.

Whatever floats you boat at the end of the day. It's not a huge deal how people interact on the internet. I'm just saying that I personally prefer taking a turn-the-other-cheek approach. That's the way that works for me. I get along pretty well with both "casuals" and "elites" (though, really, the super-abstract stereotypes of both those parties are extremely rare; most players are somewhere in between). If at times I expressed sentiments that were viewed as being more extreme than that then I apologize for poorly expressing myself.