I disagree. This is satisfying, but exactly the kind of thing playing into right-wing propaganda: "The left is smug and dismissive, it has no arguments." I understand refusal to engage, but it should be EASY to engage JP and prove him wrong!
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You're wrongly assuming absence of disingenuous behavior. The vast majority who show up to argue don't want any intellectual exchange. They want the legitimacy of intellectual people arguing with them.
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It's a small problem that idiots like JP exist. It's a big problem that they achieve an international platform in the media as a topic with two legitimate sides.
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When you let a hateful idiot debate in a forum that grants legitimacy, they end up President.
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Yeah, no. Trump won because everyone else was *totally unprepared* for the kind of attack on truth and reality that his campaign did. There was basically NO DEFENCE. That's not the same mechanism here.
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