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Silent3

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2. For way too many it has become important to quickly categorize others as friend or foe...

Reply to loyalsister (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 10:17 PM

Aug 2013

...on the slightest pretext, and to show bitter contempt to those judged "foe". Any attempt at nuance or qualification on any point of disagreement must be quickly interpreted as "weasel words" instead.

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... Fumesucker Aug 2013 #1

For way too many it has become important to quickly categorize others as friend or foe... Silent3 Aug 2013 #2

Yeah. I'm not much on black or white thinking loyalsister Aug 2013 #3

Yeah, name-calling and preemptively attacking those who you assume Just Saying Aug 2013 #4

You can't be civil towards fascism. AppleBottom Aug 2013 #5

There are no fascists here. But there are plenty of name-callers. n/t pnwmom Aug 2013 #15

This has been worse than the Occupy heyday. randome Aug 2013 #6

Oh, that's rich Fumesucker Aug 2013 #8

Happens to all of us. randome Aug 2013 #17

I know loyalsister Aug 2013 #9

It's like the old joke about the new prisoner Fumesucker Aug 2013 #7

Number four Lugal Zaggesi Aug 2013 #12

"Hater!" "Racist!" "Firebagger!" "You just want a pony that farts glitter!" tblue Aug 2013 #10

It was a general observation loyalsister Aug 2013 #11

Interesting. I'm here almost every night jazzimov Aug 2013 #13

Here's "Obama Hater" for you Fumesucker Aug 2013 #16

The worst of the name-callers are not Democrats pnwmom Aug 2013 #14

Locking, per consensus of GD hosts that it is Meta. pacalo Aug 2013 #18