re: #286 Obdicut

Why are you talking about people being told to shut up after having been compared to a Nazi, in a thread where no one has been told to shut up, and no one present in the thread has been compared to a Nazi?

Nobody has been told to shut up, so just relax.

Can you explain why this applies to me, but not to you?

I suppose because I acknowledge we agree on why not to call people Nazis. Or at least we did. Back when you said you don’t, yourself.

Swell. Neither do I. You’ve shifted that view, though. I say it’s in an effort to score a point, and at this point has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic from 3 hours ago.

It’s both. I’m against using them because it leads to endless discussions like this with people who aren’t willing to or capable of distinguishing between an ahistorical and emotional use of the Nazi analogy with one that has actual meaning and reason.

By the way, for the third time, you said this:

Can you or can you not point out where I required you to convert your view to be precisely in line with mine?

For the 17th time, we basically agree on this issue.

You’re not going to get me to rationalize calling Debbie Schlussel or anyone like her “Goebbels” as a good idea. I have multiple, personal reasons for not doing so. You seem to yourself, but for the sake of this thread…agree with them, agree with only some of them, agree with none of them. It doesn’t matter.

It’s just not going to happen, whatever knots you twist yourself in, in this strange effort.