Cav, you can be hard to follow sometimes...but you're reasonable. Your above post is pretty on target in this case.
No Ed, you're just a fucking idiot. You are incapable of cognating the difference between "reasonable" and "appeals to my biases." Seriously, in the months that I have been here I still ahve yet to see you even make a singlke attempt at presenting anything resembling a coherent, sensible argument.
You just BLATHER. Nothing you say is backed up by any sort of reasoning, half of what you say simply doesn't make sense, you regularly display gross ignorance of facts
CavScout was not remotely "on target." If you had half a brain, it would be obvious what he's doing. He's been twisting and misrepresenting my beliefs so as box me in, and force me to defend myself against utterly spurious accusations. All in an effort to avoid addressing my actual arguments.
Where, for example, is his evidence that I want to perpetuate racism for all time? He makes no attempt to demonstrate this from my comments, he simply asserts that it is true. Yet, in response to Werekoala's request, I laid out some ideas about how to address racism. All of these ideas were selected for the predictable and
immediate results that they create. Yet CavScout, in total definance of my stated desires, claims I want to perpetuate the existing situation for all time in order to have something to rail against. There is nothing to support this interpretation!
So when he claims that I "lash out more and more with this line of drivel as {I} find {myself} backed into a intellectually dishonest corner" what he is actually commenting on is the real fact that I tend to lash out more and more when I get frustrated by other people's intellectual dishonesty.
He's being intellectually dishonest, it's pissing me off, and the only reason you agree with his interpretation of reality is that it supports your delusional belief that you aren't a pea-brained idiot.
The funny thing?
I'm not a right-winger.
Hard to tell, considering the way you defend right-wing hate literature, attempt to suppress or censor any criticism of the right, play cheerleader to the right-wingers on this board, and constantly praise them for their "reasonableness" when they are being clearly disingenuous.
Ultimately Ed, I have such incredible lack of confidence in your intelligence that I honestly do not believe you are intellectually capable of identifying your own political bias. You may (quite-by-accident) be correct that you aren't a right-winger though. You may simply be too stupid to be labeled with an specific ideology.