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Originally Posted by bluejays
If this thread continues can we at least stop with the name calling? The labelling as well. Getting a little tiresome.
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Name calling (bigot, homophobe, racist, Islamophobe etc) are tacit admissions that you have a weak argument. If someone has a logically consistent point, name calling is unnecessary. It's a last resort in an attempt to defend totalitarian ideologies. Smart people see right through the ploy of course. People think words like racist and bigot are somehow magic. But whatever impact they had in the past they have lost. Consistent overuse has rendered those words meaningless in the context of these discussions.