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Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by hsod on Monday November 30, 2015 @06:53PM (#10652763)
> We call that quid pro quo, and yes, it's intentional. If Islam itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority, then it stands to reason that Christianity itself is responsible for the actions of a minority of a minority. So long as conservatives blame Islam in general for ISIS, we will blame Christianity in general for Westboro Baptist, for Clinic Terrorists, for Jehovah Witness child negligence murder, etc.

You are mimicking the rhetoric of the worst, most extreme segment of your opposition, which brings you (and this conversation) down to their level.

Whoever fights with monsters...

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Re:Thomas Piketty: Clamping down with law and order will not... by criley2 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:02PM (#10672171)
"You are mimicking the rhetoric of the worst, most extreme segment of your opposition,"

No, we're not mimicking the rhetoric of the "worst, most extreme".

To suggest that is hyperbolic, and ironically itself represents the exact rhetoric you're trying to accuse me of engaging in.

The worst and most extreme segment of the opposition says "lets use violence to terrorize those who disagree". This level of violent discourse is far worse and more extreme than the rhetoric we mimick.

We're not engaging in that rhetoric, rather we're engaging in the mainstream popular rhetoric of people who don't agree with those extremists.

"Whoever fights with monsters..."

Honestly, the hypocrisy of you engaging in unfettered hyperbolic bullshit for the sole purpose of demonizing me as a monster is hard to overstate. Talk about monsterous, you should be teaching me how to distort words and demonize others, as you clearly are my superior in this area!

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