Food for thought, II

[Dragonlady]

What I find troubling is when opposition, either left or right, doesn't attack the point of what's said but instead demonizes the speaker.

That bugs me as well. If you don't agree with what I have to say, then TELL me why you disagree, and what you have as your solution for the proposed problem.

Don't just scream "commie/nazi/socialist/whatever", tell the person you are responding to that they are stupid and whatever other insult they think of at the time.

They never seem to address the points being made, they just want to troll and call names.

Interesting.

You assume that the issue you are discussing requires a solution. Why cannot someone simply disagree with the entire premise and state their beliefs and why they believe what they do? Let's take immigration as an example. The progressive say's it's broken because we don't allow people into the country fast enough. I disagree. I say it is broken because it allows far too many people into the country. There are reasons I believe this, but why should I be required to answer to you or anyone here for those reasons?

As for namecalling, let's add racist to that list. I opposed Obama strictly on his policies, yet every progressive on this forum tried to silence Me and My speech by declaring I was a racist.

With regard to the OP's list of quotes, I want to make sure that both sides are equally guilty of not following these concepts.

Wrong Bucko. You were called a racist for espousing racist beliefs.

 

[Darkwind]

What I find troubling is when opposition, either left or right, doesn't attack the point of what's said but instead demonizes the speaker.

That bugs me as well. If you don't agree with what I have to say, then TELL me why you disagree, and what you have as your solution for the proposed problem.

Don't just scream "commie/nazi/socialist/whatever", tell the person you are responding to that they are stupid and whatever other insult they think of at the time.

They never seem to address the points being made, they just want to troll and call names.

Interesting.

You assume that the issue you are discussing requires a solution. Why cannot someone simply disagree with the entire premise and state their beliefs and why they believe what they do? Let's take immigration as an example. The progressive say's it's broken because we don't allow people into the country fast enough. I disagree. I say it is broken because it allows far too many people into the country. There are reasons I believe this, but why should I be required to answer to you or anyone here for those reasons?

As for namecalling, let's add racist to that list. I opposed Obama strictly on his policies, yet every progressive on this forum tried to silence Me and My speech by declaring I was a racist.

With regard to the OP's list of quotes, I want to make sure that both sides are equally guilty of not following these concepts.

Wrong Bucko. You were called a racist for espousing racist beliefs.

I didn't, but its a tool used by the left to shut down speech. I clearly believe that the left doesn't even know the meaning of the word.

 

[Marion Morrison]

What I find troubling is when opposition, either left or right, doesn't attack the point of what's said but instead demonizes the speaker.

That bugs me as well. If you don't agree with what I have to say, then TELL me why you disagree, and what you have as your solution for the proposed problem.

Don't just scream "commie/nazi/socialist/whatever", tell the person you are responding to that they are stupid and whatever other insult they think of at the time.

They never seem to address the points being made, they just want to troll and call names.

Interesting.

You assume that the issue you are discussing requires a solution. Why cannot someone simply disagree with the entire premise and state their beliefs and why they believe what they do? Let's take immigration as an example. The progressive say's it's broken because we don't allow people into the country fast enough. I disagree. I say it is broken because it allows far too many people into the country. There are reasons I believe this, but why should I be required to answer to you or anyone here for those reasons?

As for namecalling, let's add racist to that list. I opposed Obama strictly on his policies, yet every progressive on this forum tried to silence Me and My speech by declaring I was a racist.

With regard to the OP's list of quotes, I want to make sure that both sides are equally guilty of not following these concepts.

Wrong Bucko. You were called a racist for espousing racist beliefs.

Linky?