Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

Yes, replying to everything you don’t like by accusing the person putting it forth of being responsible for “a whole slew of anti-intelectual [sic] conspiracy theories pandered to by the Right” is exactly the dishonest, trolling tactic that GIGO loves to use, you love to defend, and that for at least the second time in this thread, you are now admitting to even though you will insist you don’t use it the next time it comes up.

You are an illiterate shitbag. You are literally responding to a post saying “DemonTree is not being criticized for being an anti-vaxer; she is being criticized for her views on CRT” by saying “SEE?! YOU ADMIT TO CRITICIZING HER FOR BEING ANTIVAX!!!”

She is being “criticized for her views on CRT” not by anyone putting forth any argument in favor of a different view on CRT (that would require getting down from the “CRT doesn’t exist outside of law schools and anyone who claims they dislike CRT has never actually encountered CRT” bullshit mountain which is clearly the hill you guys are going to die on no matter what) but by the accusation that, by having views on CRT which aren’t approved by the far-left, she must therefore be responsible for every position that you and GIGO imagine “conservatives” hold up to and including anti-vax.

No, it’s not a good thing that posters engage in disingenuous arguments, like those who feigned ignorance about what a slur is and why it’s socially different than an insult.

That the discussion about insults focused on semantic arguments about slurs vs insults made reasonable discussion pointless and we don’t need that here. It’s a classic deflection tactic and is disingenuous.

It was an perfectly illustrative example of what the OP was arguing and proved the point.

That’s not what I am saying. I want a board that represents differing points of views. I don’t want a board full of group-think people, which is a large reason why this board is failing.

That’s not the OP’s thesis. Bolding mine.

Wow, you really ARE illiterate.

Dunno about Ann_Hedonia, but my liberal friends complain about this all the time. One guy had Facebook censor photos of his friends ballroom dancing because the photos were too revealing. He is ALSO getting paid ads that include images that are MUCH more revealing. Some words that transpeople use discussing issues among themselves seem to get flagged by Facebook. I’m not on Facebook very often, and can’t pull up an example, but I know that I’ve seen dozens of complaints about it in the past couple of years.

:rofl: He literally said he wanted a board full of group-think people:

Hive minds being well known for their ability to discover the truth. :smirk:

It mystifies me why people suffering from blunt-instrument, unappealable algorithmic censorship are in favour of it, but @Ann_Hedonia is entitled to her principles.

Again, that is very silly for you to say after you cited a demagogue on the CRT thread.

I thought you ignored me? Ok, then.

It’s this type of argument he’s talking about.

He’s saying that if the consequence of losing disingenuous posters is we end up with a hive mind that is focused around truth (and truth is not the same as ideology), then yes, that is ok!

He’s not saying “yay! Hive mind! Let’s boot those awful people who dare to have a different thought!”

So this cherry picking, most negative interpretation of a statement to reinforce your forgone conclusion of what you want to believe the OP’s point is, is exactly the type of argument this board doesn’t need.

Spare me the histrionics. I was just curious. Obviously other people think it’s a big deal, since the Israeli government and 35 US states have passed laws designed to discourage it. Do you oppose those laws?

I don’t really know a lot about the issue, but when I was at university there was a group who wanted to boycott one of my professors because he was from Israel. I certainly didn’t agree with that; he didn’t choose where he was born.

/Thread.

FWIW, I didn’t want to cite him, because his articles are obviously extremely biased, but I couldn’t find the source documents linked anywhere else.

Yes, the right wing in Israel is just as capable of drumming up non-issues into big attacks on Israeli sovereignty. Sort of like the people who get really upset over kneeling during the national anthem. I oppose boycotts on Israel but I also oppose laws against them, yes.

Yeah, that’s pretty fucking dumb, just like the judo wrestlers who keep dropping out of the Olympics rather than fight an Israeli athlete.

So close - and yet - so far.

Well said

I was the person talking about slurs, so you’re talking about me. I did NOT feign ignorance about what the word slur means. I know exactly what it means because I looked it up in 4 online dictionaries and multiple other cites.

I asked if puzzlegal was using a non-standard definition of the word. I didn’t get an answer.

Generally, people here are accused of not bringing any cites to the table. I had multiple cites of what the word slur means. I got no cites in return that supported that there was another definition.

The reason that it was relevant was because the distinction was being made between a slur and an insult. There is none. The implication is that slurs are generally made by conservatives because they’re aimed at certain groups. But those certain groups are not named anywhere in a cite in this thread except by people saying that their saying so makes it true…

You also forgot that another poster cited also evidence that your demagogue mistated or exaggerated what your source documents showed.