>That's how you get to false equivalencies.
No, you're just putting something into it which doesn't matter to me. Not a false equivalency.
You said:
> blowing it up out of proportion is just as toxic
Making a false equivalency of the supposed toxicity of the commenter's post and the toxicity displayed in the article.
You can just take the L; you don't have to be performatively obtuse about it.
And yet the context is extremely important.
> I didn't factor this in
That's how you get to false equivalencies.