Re:What do slaveholders think?
by yummyfajitas on Saturday March 25, 2017 @09:25PM
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Downvoting and calling someone racist is not an argument.
And note there might be others who are not certain which side is correct, and might be persuaded by your arguments.
I'm aware. I actually receive a consistent flow of emails of the form "I'd never say this in public, but you made me rethink what I previously believed." That's because I'm willing to be called racist or whatever.
Most people aren't. It significantly hinders rational discussion.
>I'd gamble at 3:1 odds that I'd be downvoted and called racist.
Yeah, you would, so you would need to argue back. Is that so painful? And note there might be others who are not certain which side is correct, and might be persuaded by your arguments. Or they might be persuaded they are wrong. That is what open discussion is about, and it is the best system we have.
I do think you have one good point. That is that calling someone "racist" because they disagree with you on something is usually not helpful. It is better to just state points of disagreement.