Storming Of The Capitol Building

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(02-03-2021, 02:04 PM)GMDino Wrote: There's a thread around here somewhere about how folks like Tucker went nuts when Biden said white supremacy was bad.  The gist being that if you are not a white supremacist you wouldn't be offended.

It's both interesting and telling that you lead off with this example.  I mean, it's not like you're trying to paint the groups that follow in a negative light by association with white supremacy at all.

Quote:It's the same with police.  If you point out where changes or improvements might be possible or talk about the "bad apples" then you have a group of people get offended even though  they are not in that group.

I think you'll find that when said changes or "improvements" are based on falsehood or deliberate misinformation you'll get that type of response.

Quote:Substitute gun laws or some other subgroup with a cause they care dearly about and you get the same results.  We are devolving into an "us" vs "them" on all issues.

In some ways, to be sure.  However, it's when arguments for or against are based on falsehoods, both deliberate and inadvertent, that you get the type of response you're referencing.