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33. Nope!

Wed May 1, 2013, 09:16 AM

May 2013

"Consider the possibility that many people here are concerned, vigilant and well-informed."

That's left open enough for you to overlay what you will, right? It is obvious that "many people" is inclusive. Where you seeing something like: "unlike yourself." at the end of that sentence?

Infer as you will.

That was not a veiled attack on the post I responded to. That was a response concerning my opinion of members at DU in a more general sense.

Otherwise I would have presented a direct, ad hominem statement to that effect directed at the person who posted.

I was, however, alluding to other factors in relation to the impetus of the post and "perhaps it is possible" in plain English was inquisitive, not necessarily accusatory.

Is that clear to you now?

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