Discussion about perch in Fish Lake

[Fin-S-Fish]

Oh wow, excellent rhetorical criticism skills here! LOL I thought this was just going to be another one of those arguments with one highly biased group vs. another doggedly arguing their side in a hateful way, but this is very good insight you have about ideological hegemony here. One group wants trophy trout, another wants whatever they can catch even if it's ordinary panfish. All kinds of power and social issues at play here! I have a good theory about who will prevail. Hegemony works all the time everywhere, even in discourse about outdoor recreation. Kinda like that whole catch and release ideology vs frying them puppies all up. While an egalitarian approach might say each to their own way of thinking, a hegemonic approach will involve one side denouncing the other as inferior or less than, thus insidiously making the others conform to the dominant ideology making people feel shameful of their actions. Yes , bucket biology is problematic, but denouncing someone's enjoyment of perch? LOL Telling them what they would like better? Let them decide for themselves what they like better! You make a pretty good point here. This is why some people get cynical and cease to bother posting reports.
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