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Originally Posted by New Era
You claim you have worked on a gang task force, and I am not going to deny that claim, but I will ask a very simple question. Where did your gang task force get its intel on various groups being monitored?
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I didn't say I worked on one, I said I worked with one. And they didn't use any SPLC information as far as I'm aware, but obviously, I'm in Canada. The point is that this organization has become politicized, and that the information they provide is now far less reliable when we're deciding whether people are "extremists" or "hate groups" for political purposes as a result. Nawaz isn't an "extremist".
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Originally Posted by New Era
A myopic view of the world? Seriously counselor? You who judge everyone on whether their particular perspective aligns with yours, and the sources you use, has the audacity to claim someone is myopic? I mean, just look at your engagement with wittynickname. She's explaining her perspective, as a woman, and you charge her with using identity politics? Pot, meet kettle.
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I deliberately, consciously
avoid "judging" people based on whether they agree or disagree with me, so this is a pretty ridiculous thing to accuse me of. As for charging her with using identity politics, she
obviously did. She said that my views on Trump were the result of my identity as a straight white man, and that as a result I wasn't seeing things clearly and was minimizing or writing off certain bad outcomes. That is quintessential identity politics. That's what it
means.
I think I'm just going to ignore you, because the way you deal with people on here is just so aggressive and so intellectually obdurate that you're just exasperating to deal with. It's full speed ahead a hundred miles an hour right out of the gate with "Your views don't matter because you don't know anything about this subject, but luckily for all of you I'm an expert". Every time. It's Dunning-Kruger on steroids. You're not here to have a discussion or work through ideas, you're just trying to win an argument on the internet for the sake of your own ego. I'm getting nothing out of this back and forth except frustration and really don't see any reason to keep talking to you at this point.