re: #295 changomo

Obdicut,

The very first thing you did was make an ad-hominem attack on me, before even addressing my point

You said - >” I doubt that you can define ad hominem.”

This is just sad, you accuse me of not understanding what ad-hominem mean and you can’t even identify it yourself when you’ve just done it.

Just a refresher:
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

“Ad hominem abusive usually involves insulting or belittling one’s opponent in order to invalidate their argument”

Right. You don’t understand ad homimen, as I thought.

I didn’t say that your argument was incorrect because you were stupid— that is an ad hominem attack. It’s a personal attack on you. Saying that you don’t understand what ad hominem means is not a personal attack— especially when you then demonstrate you don’t.

As far as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson - I’m okay to agree to disagree, you think they are great civil rights leaders, I think they are race-baitors - I’m at peace with that.

And again: it’s not either/or. I have no idea why you think the only possibility is ‘race baiter’ or ‘great civil rights leader’. They were great civil rights leaders who have, as their stars have fallen, turned more to race-baiting— but that just makes the question require a more nuanced answer.