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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
It depends imo.
One comment: Not conclusive, but definitely a red flag
A couple comments over the span of a long time: still not conclusive, but I'm getting a lean
More than a few comments in a short amount of time: confirmed bigot
There are influential factors, however.
Trump supporter? Not conclusive, but getting a lean.
Trump supporter and a single comment: Confirmed bigot.
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Originally Posted by AllCowsEatGrass
It will be a very tough sell to convince me that the remaining portion of Trump's ever shrinking support base isn't fundamentally supportive of Trump based on bigotry. This is the president of the KKK and neo-nazis.
Like I said, Trump supporter? Not necessarily a bigot. Trump supporter and a single expression of bigotry, stone cold bigot.
Few people except inductees into your religion are going to take such ugly expressions of bigotry and bad faith toward your fellow man, seriously. Your comment here is far uglier and far more negatively impactful (including, amsuingly, on your aims) than any of Zeno's high-minded utterances.
The belief that you can see into the heart of your fellow man with such certainty and so little evidence is equal parts comical and sad. Firstly, just on statistics, you're probably not intelligent enough., and you're not well lived enough, or philosophically sophisticated enough. That's not specific to you, that's just a general comment. The same is true of me.
Everyone in every moral panic ever could see deeply into the heart of the unbelievers, the heretics, the witch-defenders, and they could do it on next to no evidence. You think you're different? You're clearly not:
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Trump supporter and a single comment: Confirmed bigot.
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Like I said, Trump supporter? Not necessarily a bigot. Trump supporter and a single expression of bigotry, stone cold bigot.
Didn't go to Church last week? Not necessarily a heretic. Didn't go to Church last week and seen talking with a suspected witch? Confirmed heretic/possible satan worshipper.
Don't you see the absurd comedy of it all? How you're a carbon copy of people you'd hate, just with different subject matter?
You're providing precisely the reason why Zeno shouldn't answer your objections or anyone elses, and precisely the reason why we should go on offending your bad-faith sensibilities. To give in to your disgusting, low-minded, worst-assuming-of-your-fellow man bigotry is just to invite more of it, ever more acute. We can already see that with sexism and racism claims, the bar for which has gotten lower and lower and lower and the bad faith, higher and higher, until even people on your side are saying "hang on a sec..."
And then we get Trump as a blowback against your bigotry. Congratulations, you?
Take a step back, take a breath, and let Zeno blow off some steam. You're doing far more harm to the human condition and general good relations than he ever has or will. Relax, stop needing to police people, broaden your mind a little.