Chris. This isn't Twitter. I'm deleting this post. I'm asking you to be more productive and respectful when you speak to people. You're capable of so much better than this.
Oh for God's sake, Steve. Those were real antifascists in Germany from the 30s. They were protesting Hitler's rise. They were not wearing Nazi uniforms. The only swastika was on a sign showing a guy in a swastika being cartoonishly hit in the head.
A few people still alive from that era see strong parallels to the American present. Read Shirer's "The Nightmare Years."
I have no idea what aroused that "this isn't Twitter" reaction in you unless you just don't want image links here. Otherwise you completely misunderstood.
Chris, I'm just responding to your tone in general. Posting an image like that, with no context, does not lead to productive discourse. Especially with somebody you just called a troll. Again, I had no idea what point you were tyring to make. Because you didn't try to make one.
You warned me a month or so ago about the danger of somebody here degradeing the quality of discourse here. Yet lately, if I see two people bickering unproductively in the comments, you're almost always one of them. And I just don't understand why. There's been this marked change in the way you speak to some people in the past few months. And yet with others you consistently show how reasonable you can be even whilst disagreeing.
Stop telling people they're stupid or that they don't know why they're talking about. Give people the benefit of the doubt. The aim of this place is to *talk* to people with opposing viewpoints. Not to *fight* with them. If you're not interested in doing that, that's fair enough. But take a beat before you hit "post" for the sake of the people who are.
Chris. This isn't Twitter. I'm deleting this post. I'm asking you to be more productive and respectful when you speak to people. You're capable of so much better than this.
You'll have to refresh my memory, I have no recollection of what I wrote there.
It was a link to a photo of some people dressed in Nazi uniforms. Not sure what point you were trying to make with it.
Oh for God's sake, Steve. Those were real antifascists in Germany from the 30s. They were protesting Hitler's rise. They were not wearing Nazi uniforms. The only swastika was on a sign showing a guy in a swastika being cartoonishly hit in the head.
A few people still alive from that era see strong parallels to the American present. Read Shirer's "The Nightmare Years."
I have no idea what aroused that "this isn't Twitter" reaction in you unless you just don't want image links here. Otherwise you completely misunderstood.
Chris, I'm just responding to your tone in general. Posting an image like that, with no context, does not lead to productive discourse. Especially with somebody you just called a troll. Again, I had no idea what point you were tyring to make. Because you didn't try to make one.
You warned me a month or so ago about the danger of somebody here degradeing the quality of discourse here. Yet lately, if I see two people bickering unproductively in the comments, you're almost always one of them. And I just don't understand why. There's been this marked change in the way you speak to some people in the past few months. And yet with others you consistently show how reasonable you can be even whilst disagreeing.
Stop telling people they're stupid or that they don't know why they're talking about. Give people the benefit of the doubt. The aim of this place is to *talk* to people with opposing viewpoints. Not to *fight* with them. If you're not interested in doing that, that's fair enough. But take a beat before you hit "post" for the sake of the people who are.