I can't make you learn if you don't want to. You're a chicken**** because you run away from intelligent discussion while relentlessly shouting into the wind about how someone should be dropping bombs somewhere for some poorly conceived reason.
Does coaching your elementary school students in debate skills include teaching them to resort to words like "chicken****" when they don't have anything reasonable to say?
I wasn't defending that at all. No one should call you a Nazi, even if you may share arbitrary traits with them such as nationality and stereotyping. I was just giving my two cents on why there seems to be a misunderstanding between yourself and others.
If I were to call you a mass murderer and you were to deny this allegation, I am sure you would not appreciate it if some smartass showed up and held a long monologue on how this is a "misunderstanding". Don't try to downplay it. It's wrong and inexcusable to wrongly call me a Nazi. There is no misunderstanding about that.
I've had plenty of reasonable things to say. Calling basso a chickent**** was one of them, as he has clearly displayed the requisite qualities. FYI, elementary school students generally have not achieved the necessary cognitive developments to practice academic debate in any meaningful way. Most adults, however, should be able to understand the simple concept that different discursive environments call for different stylistic adaptations. The message board format allows me to demonstrate the flaws in your logic by relating your statement to ones you have previously responded to negatively. So, I can say, "Do you teach your Nazi comrades (I know you don't have Nazi comrades, just as you know I don't teach elementary school students) how to obsessively demonize Muslims based on nothing but their deeply ingrained sense of racial and ethnic supremacy?" My false attribution of a racist motive to your objectionable behavior in this forum parallels your own misrepresentation of the context behind my calling basso a chicken****.
Certainly I wouldn't appreciate it. I wasn't expecting you to appreciate it. Sometimes people need to hear what they don't want to hear. I just wasn't calling you a Nazi or defending others calling you Nazi.
With your third sentence you are defending it, or at least relativizing it, or expressing your barely hidden joy in people doing it.
Sorry, high school. It just seemed that your debating skills were more on the elementary school level if callling someone a chicken**** was a key element of those "skills" .
Loving the passion in this thread. Some people preach love, others preach hate, but most of all, together, we preach understanding. So keep doing what makes you the person you are because the terrorists can't take that away from you. Some of you may see ATW's posts as "unsubstantiated hate", but on the flip side, he is exposing the oversensitivity and validity of any mainstream argument against Muslims, whether they are classified as radical or not. No one is born "radical". A toast. A toast. To a long life, good health, bigtexxx's lawnmoving business going bankrupt and a mean ass on your woman. Ronnay
It wasn't a key element, but rather the denouement of my victory. You are making the common mistake of novice debaters in focusing on non-critical parts of the argument. My points about the risks of military intervention, the uncertainty of achieving meaningful objectives, and the critical importance of multilateral institutions all stand uncontested.
Funny that you would employ a Godwinesque strategy only a handful of posts after playing Mr. Internet Meme Enforcer. You continue to drop the points I made that were germane to the present discussion. For your reference:
Oh, sorry...I just thought that people would be interested in discussing them. At least the teenagers I work with are.
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