It's not conceding the argument, it's giving up on the arguments.

So you're justified in not bothering to take discussions with the name callers seriously but not in concluding that you were right.

Also Microbet's post above this is well worth considering seriously.

Lololololololol, chez gonna chez. I didn't give up on the argument in the least. Kelhus decided to take his ball and go home because I used the R word in a sentence wholly peripheral to the argument I made. Of course you are on the side of people who are upset at things getting called racist. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. Same as it EVER was.

lol. yes of course chez is going to chez. _People engage with people if they want to discuss things with them. When you don't you call them names, make up stuif about what they believe and the rest of the bag of rhetorical tricks to avoid any engagement.

You're not the worst by far.

and as usual you ignore the key point which is it that it absolutely doesn't mean the name callers arguments are being conceded.

chezlaw once again sees an argument about whether racism exists and boldly sallies forth to, uh, offer some constructive criticism to the white supremacist side.

chezlaw you know YOU could try your hand at disagreeing with that article.

Fly, you have no interest in my posts on politics, racism/etc. No need to pretend otherwise - if by some chance I'm wrong feel free to respond to some of it one day. I know you can't bring yourself to acknowledge how much we agree on so I wont hold my breath.

But no it's the same old making stuff up to try to be mean.

[x] strong deployment of [x]

Do you know how many times people have called me racist? It was a whole thing in pu/pv7. We even made a thread about it:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...-list-1682850/

Pretty sure everyone is racist.

Ask your friends here to make sure.

yawn

I don't doubt you thought that.

I assume you realise this is also the response of increasingly everybody to all the repeated name calling. Especially as it becomes increasing hyperbolic in a futile attempt to combat the diminishing returns.

At least being one of the cool kids you don't get to enjoy the excruciating dullness of being told that your very sad about the name calling - as 'evidenced' by you bringing it up yet again.

(in before fly makes up that not loving the name calling thingy is some defense of the legitimate targets.)

Cool kids say “yawn” in 2019?

Nobody is more sensitive to name calling than the sensitive snowflake name calling police.

Er, the “cool” “kids”.

In very low content news I bet Arizona O41.5 points on Saturday night at Hawaii. Was 35-35 heading into the 4th Q, and Az had 3 drives enter scoring position in the 4th and came away with 3 points total and lost 45-38. Fun times.

Glad football is back.

This is straight up right wing rhetoric lol. Right down to using "everybody" when they mean themselves and only themselves.

Do you have some opinion polling to back up that calling literally anything racist has produced people tuning out those accusations because it's "repeated name calling"? Outspoken and radical anti-racism seems to be on the rise to combat white nationalism, we have mainstream Democratic politicians calling the President a racist.

What the **** are you talking about? A full ****ing decade of this ****. Have you changed one mind? They gave you a forum to run without name calling and lol it immediately became the place where Nazis celebrated domestic terrorism.

Are you going to cry?

Yawn

qed

I never meant to hurt you

You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. --trump on everything

I see Bret 'bedbug' Stephens deactivated his twitter because some guy called him a metaphorical bedbug on the internet. Hilarious!

To be fair he didn't deactivate it because he feelings were hurt from being called a bedbug, he deactivated his account because he emailed the professor's boss and got called out on a big over action to a small thing.

If I remember correctly it's not the first time he's done something like that either.

If anyone's curious, this is a different 20 - something young man than the 20 - something year old pool boy that Falwell did a sweetheart property deal with earlier.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1VH283

https://reason.com/2019/08/26/secret...bout-backpage/

In 2018 when the federal govt shut down Backpage over alleged child sex trafficking, I remember reading some articles (by Libertarian outlets I believe) claiming that this was all cynical political opportunism, and there was no evidence Backpage promoted child sex trafficking, and in fact they actively alerted authorities where they thought their platform might have been used for this.

It appears some unsealed memos indicate an internal investigation by the government determined the same thing, but the government kept going after back page on child sex trafficking charges regardless. And Kamala Harris was a prominent figure involved in this.

The trial of the Backpage founders is set for 2020. My understanding is the government is trying to drag this out as long as possible in order to bankrupt the founders to weaken their ability to defend themselves, which I guess is SOP. I remember also reading when they finally decided to make their move the govt did a very sensational raid of the owners house with assault rifles drawn and even dragged the owner's wife out of the shower.

Anyways, this certainly seems an interesting juxtaposition considering what increasingly appears to be a cover-up of actual child sex trafficking in the Epstein case.

Edit: Reason.com seems to be a libertarian minded operation that opposes what they view as government authoritarianism in principle, so I guess take that at face value going in.

To be fair this kind of nitpicking is what makes this section of the forum unreadable.

Why did he email guy and Cc his boss? Because he was trying to bully someone who he saw as less powerful and because he couldn't handle being called a metaphorical bedbug in a tweet with 9 likes and 0 retweets. Yes the email was why this blew up but the bedbug tweet was the first domino and why any of this happened in the first place. This is clear to anyone with a pulse.

Maltzman's publicly posted email response is pure gold and the perfect conclusion to this extremely funny story.