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I love when you deal with an american, usually a Republican or Democrat supporter. They ask you a legitimate question on why you are critical of their party, so naturally i give a respectful, long, and well researched response with a long list of citeable sources....
The result is always the same "This is so pathetic I wont even dignify it with a response" followed by a long list of personal attacks and accusations of having said something I never said.
Seriously Americans, this idiocy is getting pretty old. The rest of the world are done with the USA.
He actually argued against specific points in your list then realized that it would actually be pointless to, because the vast majority of those would just be you repeating the leftie talking points back at him.
@guizzy I dont mind if you agree with him. But to assume a non-leftist will repeat nonleftist talking points. When to that point I did nothing of the sort, is pretty presumptuous. Particularly considering im a person who usually attacks the majority of those talking points.
In fact the list I compiled came from a much larger list. I rejected about 90% of the points on there as empty leftish talking points. I only shared the ones that I personally knew about in detail, and which I determined were valid civil rights violations for one reason or another.
Of course if you just assume someone will act like a typical leftist before you have even begun to engage them then the real problem is that YOU are probably a typical tightest to lost in your own dogma to have a clue (or vice versa).
I wholly expect anyone who supports the right or the republicans would not just side with him but repeat his childish behavior in a similar argument. I have about the same expectations of the left should the roles be reversed.
It's not that I assume that of lefties, it's that it was obvious that your list was taken from somewhere else, and were someone else's arguments.
@guizzy Well of course its obvious. Did you read what I said. I said I compiled the list from various sources. But I only selected the points I had previously known about and did deep research on.
Generally speaking citing other sources with more credibility than yourself, especially on topics you have also researched and confirmed in your own studies, is a good thing, not a bad thing.
@guizzy I understand that visceral reaction. I think that is something both sides instinctually feel when they hear the other argue a point, even before you have a chance to really judge it.
Dont get me wrong I understand the conditioning. The left, as with all americans, are pretty childish when they argue their points. They repeat things like robots and know very little of the context. So when you hear it you are conditions to immediately assume its more of the same. For me as someone who is neither left nor right I have an instinct to want to react that way when i hear right talking points as much as left. But I do make a conscious effort not to feed into that instinct.
So while I do understand why you might have responded how you did based on past expiernce, ultimately it is counter-productive. Responding the way you do is why the left thinks so low of you and others ont he left. Just as it is the reason you feel the same in the other direction. It is clearly a habit best broken.
You might be different, but it sure looked a whole lot like it, and I wouldn't blame him for having thought the same too.