The point isn't anybody's feelings. It's that engaging in the culture war the way the left has long been doing so proves that they simply can't be reasoned with. It's so entirely & flagrantly dishonest & irrational that it makes the left appear as if we must not have any honest & rational points on our side, because if we did then we'd use those instead.
What reason does your opponent have to listen to you if all you've ever done before is prove to that same opponent, over & over again, that you completely refuse to deal with any actual issues & facts that might get in the way of a chance to work in some more of those precious all-important personal attacks? Even if your attempts to merely insult people into submission (which has never ever worked but has been known to do the opposite) didn't hurt their feelings, they'd still be clogging up a discourse that should have some facts & reason somewhere in it.
To even pretend that any of this was ever about "hurt feelings" in the first place is just more of the same dishonest personal attackery that gets us nowhere (which whoever I was responding to in the first place claimed nobody on the left ever does
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You can continue with more that same old kind of useless transparent nonsense that's been accomplishing nothing all along, or you can try to shift to something else that might actually help (or at least quit contributing to the harm).
) I doubt he was influenced by the right wing mob so much as his abiding dedication to originialism. I just wish he'd gone all the way and stated that the 2nd decision he made only applied to blunderbusses.
