Re: Campaign 2016 Part XXIII: The Penultimate Thread
http://board.uscho.com/showthread.p...closes-early&p=6357608&viewfull=1#post6357608
When your idea of really smart, irreverent humor is photoshopping a picture of someone's 7-year-old daughter into a picture of a gas chamber, you're a piece of **** as a human being.
So, let me get this straight: By reading an article called "An Establishment Conservative's Guide to the Alt Right" I'm suddenly part of the Alt-Right?
Let's be clear. I read a piece, analyze it (witness phrases like "I wonder if"), critique it ("the article is long; but, it is solidly written and clear"), and thus I
am it? Really?
Really?
I advocated none of it; I read and analyzed (because I had no idea what the "Alt-Right" was before being exposed to the concept here). If you can't see analysis and critique (and no advocating) you really need to revisit reading skills and critical thinking.
Because I dare listen or learn of another's point of view does not make me that viewpoint. I appreciate and understand Kep and Rover (mostly; and nobody understands Scoob.

) But I also understand the views of Flag and SJHovey. Neither set scares me. Nor does reading about the (current bogeyman) "Alt-Right" scare me any more than the ravings at the DailyKos.
I'm from the school that says if you don't understand and can argue both sides, you don't know the argument. I know that is foreign to some, and dare I say anathema to others.
The failing of people to seek out other points of view to challenge what they believe to ensure what they believe
is what they believe is what is wrong today.