No.

You are making up this interpretation because you are mad at "regressive liberals!!!!"

The hope is that if Trump supporters didn't believe these wrong things, then they wouldn't be Trump supporters anymore. I think that might be true for a few of them, but probably not very many.

The next hope is that if someone is going to support Trump, at least they do so based on reality and not utter bull****. How could they possibly evaluate the job that Trump does if they don't look at facts? They may still support Trump even if he fails by their own standards. That's bad for everyone.

The same is obviously true for liberals who hate Trump. There is a non-zero chance that Trump does a good job as president. Many liberals believe dumb things about Trump and are susceptible to the same confirmation bias. This sin't about being dumb or IQ--it's about motivated reasoning.

Most groups of people are factually wrong about many things, including Clinton supporters, we all know that.

First cousin marriage is common in the Middle East, that is a fact. I do however agree that it is harmful and sometimes hateful to use that fact to belittle Muslims. I steer well clear from that discussion as can't see any good coming from it.

You have two Wookies. __________________

( a little help plz )

TS still doesn't know what bigot means.

13all, seemingly others share my interpretation of Bobs post.

Otherwise I do agree with your post above, you could just as well swap Trump with Clinton though.

Hey guyz, I'm not normal, LOL.

You could. But Republicans in general and Trump supporters in particular are, at this moment, less likely to accept facts and more likely to believe in conspiracies.

The tendency of liberals to believe nonsense about GMOs, vaccines and 9/11 "truth" is just as troubling, though not presently as immediate or as widespread of a problem.

13all, seemingly others share my interpretation of Bobs post.

Otherwise I do agree with your post above, you could just as well swap Trump with Clinton though.

What do you think the reactions to Bobs thread would have been if Trump was swapped with Clinton keeping everything else the same?

Let's check out TS' sick rebuttal...

Hm, gibberish right out of the gate,

And then a link to a convo I wasn't involved in, from a different thread.

Well, that's appropriately terrible. No need continuing?

Don't worry, I'm sure the breitbart comments section laps it up.

Pretty sure the democrats are going crazy right now with the whole, "Russia hacked the election" conspiracy. That seems pretty immediate and widespread at the moment without any factual evidence.

Meh, there's some evidence. tame_deuces made an interesting post in my thread. I didn't imagine it would get that much attention.

I think this is a matter of perspective. I for one have no idea which group believes in more conspiracies and false news stories.

The quote was used to imply that British Muslims were cousin****ers and a comparison was made to southern rednecks. He is bigoted AF.

If the statement is 100% true (speaking hypothetically), is that still "bigoted" to you?

Would this have been well received in the main Politics forum?

I think OP would have been banned for trolling.

If I were you I would evacuate ASAP and return under a new pseudonym

Where is the quote?

Go Cntl+F for 'tooth' in the first 50 posts of the islam thread.

this is a great post. you see dems are behind the 8 ball cause they just dont lie well. remember the video that started benghazi for just 1 example. you get caught a few times like that and peole tend to dismiss your claims. and what about those hacks were so bad. i mean they did not make up anything. i have yet to hear any proof that what wiki put out there was false. so maybe it was a good thing that americans got to see the true colors of the democratic machine as it stomped on bernies head and other things.

Plenty of people on the left think there is a high probability all this Russian **** is made up.

What is it with you guys and confusing people? You all do it - 5ive, you, others. I've never said this stuff:
about Muslims. That's Michael1999, who says some horrible bigoted stuff and should be banned for it. Chez is laying the groundwork for that now, but I can't believe that some of those statements are let stand, like them all being inbred.

Cousin marriage is almost a standard in the Muslim world - that's a simple fact - consanguineous marriage is >10% in nearly all Muslim countries. It's not the truth that's the problem - I don't think we've gone brave new world enough to ban people for factual statements - it's the implications that Michael draws that are horrible.

I don't know if OP would have been banned or not.

The post would have been received negatively and some people would have asked for specifics: which facts?

Others would have blasted the OP or otherwise not taken the post seriously.

Yes, main politics tilts left.

Pizzagate, birtherism, Obama being a secret Muslim...I think it's pretty clear.

Certainly Democrats are eager to accept the evidence, but there IS actual evidence connecting Russia to the hack of the DNC and Podesta. Democrats are probably overstating the evidence, but of course many Republicans are coming to the same conclusion.

You mean besides them being illegal? The fact that a foreign power (or some other entity) is attempting to sway the US election is a big deal.

They certainly might have made up things, many of the emails are unverifiable. More likely, though, the leaks were selective and timed to hurt one side in the election. The leaks also spawned numerous nonsensical conspiracy theories. I don't know if that was coordinated or just a "happy accident".

This is 100% true!

I have yet to here that anything from Wiki leaks that wasn't true. This wouldn't have been an issue if Hillary won. Most people are not aware that these same hackers tried to get into the RNC site but failed. The Democrats have only themselves to blame for having a very flawed candidate and running a very flawed campagne.

Who's confused Tooth? You can either admit what you actually said, skulk off into the night, or I can keep quoting you.