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Politics has been stood on end, with a thumb on the scale.
Wars are started when attacking people personally, instead of the ideas they have, is the game of the day.
The right side of History has not been Slavery, Jim Crow, denying Americans arms, segregation, internment camps and perpetual victimhood.
Each time the people were attacked instead of the idea.
For once I agree with you.
I'm so over the culture we have currently, which seems to consist predominantly of attacking people all the time. I'm so over all the namecalling and nicknames. It's so childish.
It's like people don't know how to converse with each other unless it includes an attack on someone.
I try not to do it except where I have been attacked first. Even then I try to rebut the attack in a lighthearted way.
My one exception to this rule is I'm very happy to attack Trump because he does it all the time to others. Personal attack seems to be practically the only tool he has.
Most people can’t keep their personal feelings and emotions out of it, which leads to that type of thing. Being objective takes practice.
That’s why it’s pretty easy for politicians and media to manipulate people. You just appeal to people’s emotions, get them riled up, pick a group to be the scapegoat (Jews, Blacks, Whites, Men, Women, Heterosexuals, Homosexuals, etc.) and then they fall into the “my team good, your team bad” mentality.
Practically speaking, it is even possible to attack an idea "objectively", if you know what I mean? That is, attacking the idea without resorting to personal feelings/emotions.
Politics has been stood on end, with a thumb on the scale.
Wars are started when attacking people personally, instead of the ideas they have, is the game of the day.
The right side of History has not been Slavery, Jim Crow, denying Americans arms, segregation, internment camps and perpetual victimhood.
Each time the people were attacked instead of the idea.
Is this a stealth "leave Alex Jones alone!!!" Thread???
Thus the AGW crowd calling those who question the hypothesis (we call those "skeptics", which are usually welcome and essential in real science, rather than junk pseudo-science) "deniers".
Add mocking flat earthers to that list and adults who believe in Santa Claus.
Why just “him” when there are so many good examples of the left attacking people right here on CD?
Sure seems like it goes both ways. If you don't see that, you are blindly partisan.
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