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Originally Posted by Itse
I have numerous times asked for people to prove the problem exists, and yet no one has taken on that challenge. No one is arguing my fact-based claims.
It's almost as if all you have to go on is your personal bias, and all you've got to throw at me is these ad hominen snipes.
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Someone's feisty. Look, thousands of people seem to recognize this problem exists. It's obvious enough to me, which is all I need from my perspective. If you've been paying attention and can't see it I'm not sure what I could do to "prove" it to you. Your answer seems to be "Donald Trump exists" - yes, and is basically being accused in every way of being a bigot, both in contexts where he actually is and those where he isn't really, as a way to discredit him... instead of pointing to the actual reasons he's totally unqualified.
Your answer to those examples Cliff gave seems to be the same as Rube's - no one really believes this stuff. But their behaviour suggests otherwise. The best you can say is that they're a loud fringe that no one actually follows, but given how loud, and in particular the influence they seem to have on young people particularly, I consider them a real problem.
Last night a crazy person said things about me that you acknowledged were totally non-representative of me or my view of the world, but that was fine with you and did no real damage, because I'm here and people can read my words and speak for myself and it's not stopping me from talking, as if that were a satisfactory answer; "see? There's no problem here." As if these sorts of smears don't have reputational consequences when done on a larger scale than a forum board.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm skeptical that your position on this is defeasible and consequently don't much see the point. Which is why my first post in this thread was:
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This thread is going to go so, so poorly.
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