Hyphenated Americans, dividing Americans at every opportunity
So anyone who calls themselves an 'Asian American' or 'Latino' should apologize to the families the two cops in NY?
I'm not sure your 'cause' has much to do with your 'effect'.
Identity Politics, further dividing Americans
So someone that say, belonged to the Asian Jade Society should apologize to the family of those two dead officers for being divisive?
So give me an example. If someone referred to a 'Member of the House' rather than a 'congressman', they should apologize to the families of the two cops in NY?
Seems to be another stretch in terms of rational causation.
- Screaming "you're a racist" whenever a Black American is criticized
- Screaming "you're a racist" even when race is not part of the conversation
- Ignoring/deflecting/spinning wrongdoings by Black Americans, enabling further wrongdoings
- The soft bigotry of reduced expectations
- Doing nothing to promote the healing of wounds while increasing animosities
So none of the examples I cited earlier.....criticizing police brutality, mentioning the deaths of Brown and Garner or believing that those who killed Garner should be punished under the law would constitute 'fanning the flames'?
This is where trying to communicate with partisans becomes difficult for me. I never know if you're being completely obtuse or if you really don't understand a thing I'm saying.
So I'm presented with a conundrum: Should I (a) put forth the effort to try to help you understand the obvious, or (b) should I just not bother, suspecting that there is absolutely nothing I can say that is going to make a difference here, since you're not really interested in anything other than disagreeing with me?
I used to try (a) but found it was almost invariably a waste of time with partisan ideologues, so I think I'll go with (b).
We'll just have to disagree.
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You could just answer my questions. That would have required far less time than awkward insults.
Try again.
Where are the insults? I don't think it's possible to have honest conversations with partisan ideologues, so I no longer try.
And who says I'm a 'partisan ideologue'? You've arbitrarily labeled me so you can ignore me. Worse, you've insinuated I'm 'obtuse' after I asked you a few questions about your position.
If your argument is valid, it works specifically and generally. But from my perspective, when I start applying your argument specifically, it collapses. For example, when I asked ' If someone belonged to the Asian Jade Society should apologize to the family of those two dead officers for being divisive?', you weren't able to provide an answer, despite it being immediately relevant to your general claims.
Which you seem to recognize as well.....as your abrupt shift to reasons to ignore me rather than address the germane questions I asked.
You're insinuating a rather high degree of causation for acts that don't seem to have much relevance to your supposed effect. I've seen stronger connections in a game of 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
But perhaps you have some information I don't. So I ask. And you insult in reply. If your argument only works when mirrored back to you by people that already agree......perhaps you need a better argument.