09-07-2020, 01:46 PM
(09-07-2020, 01:32 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No. What I am doing is using an extreme example to prove the fault of your logic. It is a pretty common tactic. These riots do not have to be the first stages of s Civil War to show that your logic is faulty.
Fred's examples are logical, SSF's are faulty. Got it.
Quote:The protestors are not hunting down people who carry the Confederate Flag. they are protesting against a regime that welcomes the racial hatred symbolized by the Confederate Flag.
Protesting is fine, attacking people, looting and burning buildings down is not.
Quote:And if we had a President from the Nation of Islam who supported the extermination of Jews then, yes,
Ohhhhh, the violence has to based on the words of the POTUS, and then, and only then, it's OK. Got it.
Quote:I would understand why they might resorted to violent protests when a few of them start getting killed by the state.
The vast, vast majority of police shootings are justified. Even the vast majority of the ones that were not were based on poor judgment, not deliberate execution. You use very extreme rhetoric that literally sounds like it come out of the "Rules For Radicals" playbook.