bigotry abounds

[skepticscott]

109. Apparently you have no explanation

That's the thing about dishonesty and lack of credibility, you know. They touch on everything else that a person says. Once someone has shown a penchant for asserting things that are contradictory or untrue, and that they can't and won't support with evidence, everything else they claim without support becomes questionable.

And your attempts to paint all of this as a trivial quibble over using the wrong word are really nothing but lame hand-waving. Words mean things. And specific words are deliberately chosen to mean specific things and to create specific impressions in the minds of readers and listeners. The difference between things that are true, or at least reasonable, and those that are false, or wildly exaggerated is merely the difference between the specific words used to express them. No trained and experienced writer is unaware of this.

The word "rampant"was specifically and deliberately chosen here, to create a specific (and totally false) impression of the state of things. That's what's being criticized here...not the person and not the incident.

Still waiting too for an explanation of how bigotry can abound at the same time that outrage about bigotry is "rampant". Something a little odd about that picture.