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One of the biggest problems with society...


... is our inability to accept someone's opinion without the words "racist", "sexist", "bigot" being mentioned. Or we simply just get mad when we disagree with them.

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This sounds like something only a racist, sexist bigot would say.

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What you just said sounds like something only a SJW bigot would say.

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You caught me.

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At the moment the SJW's think that they are the moral voice of society and if you disagree with them they will kill you for it.

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Kill you for it? Figuratively or literally?

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Both really. We have all seen how feral the Left gets.

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I am not a Trump supporter at all. In fact, I hate him. But I see many videos of people wearing their MAGA hats and people coming up to them and pulling it off of their head. I disagree agree with with Trump supporters, but I wouldn't pull it off of their heads just because I disagree with them.

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I'm pretty liberal and I definitely see behavior I don't like from some liberals. "Kill you for it" seems quite the exaggeration but I do see some unacceptable behavior. Of course it's the bad behavior that gets the attention so I don't think that's how the average liberal behaves when they see a red hat.

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We have had politicians attacked down here by the rabid Left, I was just threatened by a Leftard member here as well.

You also have the diseased Left saying things like "Kill all white men".

I believe that they are capable and willing to kill for their deranged beliefs.

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I have no problem calling out bad behavior from liberals. I hate it because people like you lump people like me in with them. But when it comes to acts of extreme violence, the facts don't line up with what you're saying. How do you respond to the below article from January of this year:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/homegrown-terrorists-2018-were-almost-all-right-wing/581284/

From the article:

On Wednesday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report finding that attackers with ties to right-wing extremist movements killed at least 50 people in 2018. That was close to the total number of Americans killed by domestic extremists, meaning that the far right had an almost absolute monopoly on lethal terrorism in the United States last year. That monopoly would be total if, in one case, the perpetrator had not “switched from white supremacist to radical Islamist beliefs prior to committing the murder.

The number of fatalities is 35 percent higher than the previous year, and it marks the fourth-deadliest year for such attacks since 1970. In fact, according to the ADL, white supremacists are responsible for the majority of such attacks “almost every year.” The 2018 attacks include the one at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue by a man who blamed Jews for the migrant caravan, the mass shooting at a yoga studio by an “incel” obsessed with interracial dating, and the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, carried out by a student who wished that “all the Jews were dead.”


I believe extremists can be found in every group and there is always the potential for a member or members of a group of people to cause a tragedy. But for you to act as if this is something that only the left is capable of is disingenuous and not supported by the actual facts.

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Lets not forget that Black Lies Matter actually did kill people. Also Islamic terrorism is Left wing and have killed many.

I didn't bother reading your post. Never worth listening to Leftards.

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Lets not forget that Black Lies Matter actually did kill people. Also Islamic terrorism is Left wing and have killed many.

I didn't bother reading your post. Never worth listening to Leftards.


Islamic terrorists subscribe to neither left or right ideologies and victims of that brand of terrorism can be found on both sides of the political aisle (nice try though).

Not surprised you didn't read my post and thanks for the name calling; way to prove how much better you are than us "feral" lefties. Later dude.

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Islam is very much supported by the Left.

You get treated the way you treat people. And your side treats people like shit. So enjoy the hate.

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Sigh...the left is against Islamaphobia or the harassment of peaceful Muslims of which there are millions. NO ONE on the left or right supports Islamic terrorism. But keep pretending like you don't understand that if it works for you.

LMAO at your line of "You get treated the way you treat people". I tried to talk civilly to you but YOU resorted to calling me a leftard without bothering to read my post (your words). Facts are pesky but it doesn't change that they are facts.

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Oh please. Stop lying through your teeth.

Islam supports things that the Left claim to be against. Yet you support Islam.

What a dumb deluded fool you are.

Be gone with you and you never tried to be civil. You are a bigot.

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Lol you seem great. Have a nice night.

Also exactly how am I a bigot? Kinda confused on that one...

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You do know what the word bigot means right? Or are you so brainwashed that you think it only applies to those you oppose?

I am sure you are just smart enough to look up the definition.

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You do know what the word bigot means right? Or are you so brainwashed that you think it only applies to those you oppose?

I am sure you are just smart enough to look up the definition.

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Oh I know what it means. I was just betting you wouldn't be able to explain how I'm a bigot (because I'm not). And as expected, you didn't explain but instead made some ad hominem attack against my intelligence.

And just to save you and anyone else not in the know the trouble of looking it up:

Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

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I know...but I'm also an idiot because I allow myself to get sucked in lol

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I'm on team SamGerard.

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Thank you!

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absofuckinlutely.

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Lol! yes, he tried to slut shame me, his go to move when talking to, or about women that disagree with him. Total troglodyte.
You're so lucky, I wish he would put me on ignore.

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he is an infection. not movie chat material.

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And yet you are unable to back up your words by giving even a single example to explain. You insult me because you have no valid argument and you hope I will drop to your level and return the insults, but I don't play that game.

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There isn't any point in discussing anything with you. You will just deny the facts.

You are an imbecile.

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And yet you are unable to back up your words by giving even a single example to explain. You insult me because you have no valid argument and you hope I will drop to your level and return the insults, but I don't play that game.

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I gave examples. You just don't want to hear them. Look at Black Lies Matter they killed police officers. Look at sites like "Kill all white men" that is hate speech.

The truth is all around you but you are brainwashed.

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No, I had asked you to explain how I was a bigot as you accused me of being but instead you just called me an imbecile.

But if you had bothered to read my earlier post (you said you didn't bother) you would've read where I wrote: I believe extremists can be found in every group and there is always the potential for a member or members of a group of people to cause a tragedy. But for you to act as if this is something that only the left is capable of is disingenuous and not supported by the actual facts.

Yes, I think extremists can be found many places. The stated goal of BLM has nothing to do with killing police officers but it's easy for people to take the wrong message and take things too far. I don't make excuses for extremists regardless of who their victims are.

I am a white man but I have no idea what "kill all white men" is. Never heard of such a site and if you have a link I'll gladly check it out. If it exists I'm sure I'd hate it just as I hate those who call for mass execution of blacks, Jews, Muslims, gays, etc. All of these ideals are those of extremists.

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blah, blah.

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Islam is a right wing ideology where they come from. Highly conservative.

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ROFLMAO another deluded Leftard. You really are a pack of feral bullies too.

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How the hell am I wrong?

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Just calm down. It's left wing by the standards of the western world, because it goes against it's traditional values, but in a country such as Saudi Arabia, it's a right wing ideology. That's all I'm saying.

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I am calm. I just can't believe the stupidity of the Left.

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You're really not furthering your cause by using insults, name calling and refusing to state your case intelligently. Do you think that approach will change anyone's mind? I'm a conservative and I'm happy to have civil discourse with any and all people who can be civil, too. Communication is key.

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I love how I am being attacked here when I am the victim. The name calling and attacks were started by the Left.

The Left cannot be civil so you get this.

The Left lie and don't like hearing the truth so that is hardly my fault.

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you really have it in for "the left" dont you?
they are 50% of your country.

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Not really. The Conservatives won down here as well. And the Left have it in for everyone.

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I've seen a lot of people on social media saying they want the Cheeto in Chief dead. Like I said, I don't like him either, but I wouldn't want him dead nor would I even say it.

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I find that unacceptable. Similar things were said about Obama. It's all unacceptable and not isolated to the left.

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Definitely both sides. That's why I'm neither left or right.

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I hate t-Rump but I wouldn't wish any harm to him unless he starts acting more like Hitler.

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What is the Left's obsession with Hitler? Stalin killed many more... oh yeah Stalin was Left wing.. then again so was Hitler..

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You are just setting up some wrong wing idea of whatever sjws means and making it fraught with meaning. If we were to enumerate all the wrongs the wrong wing has brought up to demonize, we would be here for a very long time. McCarthy? Nixon? Dubya? A litany of evil. Happy now ?

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Sounds like you are making excuses to me.

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My question is do you have these disagreements in your day to day life or is this from social media and what you see on tv?

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With the exception of one person in my everyday life who expects everyone to agree with him, it's mostly social media. I don't have a Twitter account, but sometimes I like to check it out just to see what people are saying.

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I thought gas was to expensive

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Do you think you come off as intelligent when you write things like this?

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It's an observation.

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That's a problem all right, yet not one of the biggest lol.

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Not compared to murder and rape. But it prevents people from stating their true opinions in fear of someone calling them racist.

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Its not the biggest, but certainly one of the biggest.

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what a lovely thread of hate.

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👍🏻

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yeah , it oidnt take EthanEdwards long to start pumping the bile out

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Hey, it started out with a simple observation by me. I didn't expect it to turn into that. In fact, the argument up there kind of proved my point.

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What's amazing is that despite my attempt to be civil he called me a bigot, not realizing the irony since the whole point of the opening post was:

"... is our inability to accept someone's opinion without the words "racist", "sexist", "bigot" being mentioned. Or we simply just get mad when we disagree with them. "

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