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Originally Posted by bluejays
Some of the bickering in this thread is through the roof. I'm sure there are a lot of good points from multiple posters with different angles, but you wouldn't think it from the semantic arguments on the most petty things.
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There are people in here who have literally said of other posters that they want violence to happen to them. There are, on this very page, unsupported allegations of bigotry and racism. But if you use the F word, you're banned. Makes sense, right?
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I'm not informed and want to read more about the various arguments but when someone can't even post a video and others jump on "it's so and so, so it's irrelevant". Isn't that the definition of an ad hominem argument?
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It absolutely is, but if you're agreeing that you're not informed - that is, you haven't taken the time to inform yourself before now - it seems likely that you're not going to watch everything anyone could produce on the subject. Who would blame you? You have limited time, like everyone. So if you're only going to watch a handful of videos, or read a handful of sources, you're better off ignoring the ones that present the situation from the perspective of a dishonest, pre-determined ideological agenda, like a couple that were posted on the last page. Some people poison their own well, and simply aren't worth wasting time listening to... and Ben Shapiro
definitely falls into that category.