Jontg
The Bear Skeptic
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- Oct 20, 2004
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@headscratcher4 - Thing is, people like him do us a disservice by using ad hominem against the Nazis when simple facts and a sprinkling of invective work just as well. It's one thing to say "You are wrong, and you are a Nazi scumbag." It's another entirely to say "You are wrong because you are a Nazi scumbag." On this thread and others, Bigjelmapro tries to use the word itself as a weapon, trying to affix it to anyone who disagrees with him on the slimmest of pretenses and believing that that alone discredits both arguer and argument. That's a basic logical fallacy and only makes us all look bad--which is something considering that we're debating Holocaust deniers. Like all conspiraloons, their favorite tactic is to cast us as dogmatic True Believers who browbeat the poor, brave Nazi dissidents because we value ideology more than the truth--and lashing out in this manner, not only at the Nazis but at any non-Zionist in the room, makes them look better than anyone who admires Hitler has a right to look.
@bigjelmapro - No, a ridiculous statement is that anyone who calls you out on your abuses is just a big meanie who hates Jews, and you know he is because he denied it.
@Simon - Veiled implications? I'll never understand this whole level-headed understatement bit you have; it's just no fun.
@bigjelmapro - No, a ridiculous statement is that anyone who calls you out on your abuses is just a big meanie who hates Jews, and you know he is because he denied it.
@Simon - Veiled implications? I'll never understand this whole level-headed understatement bit you have; it's just no fun.