06-13-2023, 04:29 PM
(06-13-2023, 04:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: It can be well stated all day and still not be germane to what is being discussed. If it's not germane then it's obfuscation. No one is surprised or puzzled by why you and Dill would want to ascribe more weight to right wing extremism than left wing. But it doesn't preclude my position from being true, which is why the apparent refusal to address it lends itself to a suspicion of avoidance. If we were discussing Germany, for example, we could use the "Hammer Gang" as an excellent example of left wing violence. But we're discussing the US, so it's not germane. By the same token if we're discussing speech suppression and violence on college campuses any examples of extremism, right or left, not occurring on college campuses are not relevent to the discussion.
I was addressing a specific subject matter within his overall response to you, not the precise details of the discussion you two are having; that subject matter being the general idea of demons on both sides when it comes to the left and right, and how they don't seem comparable in their totality.
