(November 1, 2017 at 5:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(November 1, 2017 at 5:10 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Sure, but for every racist conservative you find, there's multiple non-racist ones. It's a false equivocation to say that conservatives are racists. What is more accurate is that some conservatives are racist, or perhaps that most racists are conservative.
Maybe what you need is a Safe Zone Forum so no one's "personal space" is invaded?
And in the Safe Zone everyone can be free from ever having to think about anything "icky."
You might also consider changing the name of the site to the CUTE KITTY FORUM because, you know, religitards get upset just thinking that there are atheists in the world who are not impressed with their bullshit.
Or perhaps you should be asking yourself what you or anyone else gets out of you misrepresenting or outright lying about a person's political beliefs. What is the point of having a discussion if one side is prepared to label the other without good reason? It starts the discussion off with a person having to defend themselves over something that they shouldn't even be addressing in the first place.
This isn't about safe zones or about limiting people from having to think about "icky" things. This is about having reasonable discussions. It's not reasonable to label someone as racist simply for being conservative, nor is it reasonable to label a Catholic as a pedophile, or a liberal as a fascist. These are things that reasonable people know just aren't true, and people shouldn't have to address them or defend themselves against known falsehoods.
This isn't about not having people get upset either, I don't care if people get upset if someone disagrees with their beliefs, that's their problem. People shouldn't have to deal with lies being spread about them or used as the basis for a discussion, because what's the point?
