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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
Itse is saying that notwithstanding that argument, you can still look to what those grieving parents say critically. If they are lying or are proved to be incorrect on their fact checking, that can be called out, grieving parent or not.
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If that's what he was saying, suggesting that I want fact-free politics isn't a very good way of expressing it. In fact, it's ridiculous, considering that a couple of pages ago in this very thread I had a drawn out disagreement with Cali Panthers Fan on the basis that I consider it absolutely essential that every claim about the world be subject to critical analysis. I couldn't agree more with your last sentence.
What I was disputing at the outset was the notion that that whether you agree with the statement of the grieving parent or not is relevant to the question of whether it's exploitative to put them up on a stage to score political points. Of course you're going to be more sympathetic to the emotional case laid out by someone who's trashing the other guys' candidate. Of course you're going to think the other side doing the same is unethical and perverse. Both sides are using the same tactic at the end of the day, so this is not a false equivalence. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.