As the example in that post, I don't think what you're suggesting there makes sense. He didn't "play the man" in his response to me, he just responded to something other than what my post said. Essentially, it was a straw man, whereas what he's complaining about when he says "play the ball" is ad hominem.
Ironically, I'm pretty sure your question is also a straw man - he was suggesting that people in this thread were broadcasting their moral worthiness, not the grandchildren of residential school survivors (unless this thread is full of them, I guess).
... And further irony, if that is what he was suggesting, it's an ad hominem, because that would be imputing motive to undermine peoples' positions.
So, I guess... you're right for precisely the wrong reasons?
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