The Case Against Larry Summers

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15. I'm talking about things YOU have said and comparing them to what YOU

are saying. I am criticizing you for flinging the word 'hate' at people for not supporting Summers when you posted on DU that gay people lack only one right, which is not true and which does have to do with actual hate. Your abuse of the term is aggressive, unwarranted and reduces the word to a chew toy for political poodles.
The issue is abusive language hurled. The issue I am addressing is the intellectual vapidity of your posts on both subjects. You do not know the facts, but you pontificate anyway. 'Gay people have plenty of rights' or 'The abject hate surprises me' are both the same sort of rhetorical attack mechanism. It sucks. It is mean, it degrades the discussion and when directly asked to make a positive case instead of a negative attack on other people's ethics, you fail for lack of knowledge. It is not ok to claim untrue things or make crappy remarks about others just to cover up your own lack of knowledge. You don't know about Summers, you don't know about LGBT rights laws but you spout off about any and every subject with vitriol and accusations, always in the negative. It's just not ok to claim other people are engaging in 'abject hate' just to have something to pout about. It's disgusting. It's not how people treat each other in real life, for a good reason. It is uncouth, ignorant and there is no excuse for it at all.