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[Dill]

(08-22-2021, 12:27 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Yeah, it's quite simple.  Name me a majority Muslim country in which women and homosexuals are treated even close to equal to men.  Once twenty second has elapsed then name the same types of countries in which that is not the case.  Compare the size of each list and get back to me.

You have routinely stated you have zero issue with comparing people to Nazis, now you've expanded to comparing Americans to the Taliban.  This is not an accusation, it is a fact.

Your analogy refutes itself, as do your Nazi comparisons.  It doesn't matter if some people share some facets of another ideology.  When making a comparison to extreme groups such as Islamic terrorists or Nazis you are engaging in hyperbole, unless those groups you are comparing have engaged in anything close to the same types of behavior, e.g. rounding up homosexuals and "undesired" ethnicities and engaging in violence against them.

I've repeatedly stated that such comparisons are hyperbolic, and intentionally so.  You engage in them to paint people you dislike as analogous to some of the worst groups of people in human history.  I know you're doing it, you know you're doing and everyone else knows your doing it.  I'd expect it from some freshly "enlightened" college sophomore, not a 70+ year old man.

1. Albania. Don’t know what you mean by types of country.

2. No analogy “refutes itself”. And I don’t “compare people to nazis”. Political scientists and historians compare political/social structures across many societies, including “extreme” ones. You are insisting comparisons can only be made on the “same types” of behavior. If you were correct, it would be impossible to identify, for example, developing authoritarian tendencies in a government like turkey’s, Hungary’s or even the US. There could be no applicable metric if such comparison were really, somehow just “hyperbole”.

3. Are you able to distinguish between social scientific analysis and demogogic smack? I’m asking the guy who says I support ISIS, and now accuses me of “painting people I dislike as analogous to the worst groups etc.”

You inserted a point external to my comparison/analogy and continue to address that external point, rather than the comparison actually made. Because the goal of the comparison is outside the kind of accusatory political smack you read into it, it appears you cannot really follow it, or can follow it and don’t want to go there. Hence the attack on my imagined intentions, as if what I’m doing were no different from you claiming I support ANTIFA, as if the guy with the most extreme accusations and insults is “right”.

The analogy cannot be refuted on its own terms, apparently.