07-04-2020, 03:27 PM
(07-04-2020, 03:13 PM)Dill Wrote: I am guilty of personal attack and "belittling" if I call pro-Trump posters, not Trump, "liars" or "hypocrites" or "stupid." If I say they've made an illogical or factually correct argument, I am not thereby "belittling" them, even if they (or others) say I am. Same if I mock Trump, or positions his administrations take on issues, through the use of parody. Even if some posters here are Republicans, they are not personally attacked if I say the Republican party as a whole is "regime party," or that the party has supported voter ID laws with clearly racist intent.
Correct.
If you give an opinion/assessment of the subject matter, then you'll be fine. Once it moves to the individual, that's an issue.
If a member says that Trump or Biden's policies are a complete joke, that's giving an opinion of the subject matter. If a member says that the person supporting them is a complete joke, then they've made it about the individual and it becomes a personal insult/attempt to belittle.
Going forward, members need to remember and practice drawing a clear distinction between the content and the individual when they are responding, criticizing or giving their opinions.
