(06-07-2020, 02:24 PM)Last42min Wrote: Your question is stupid an reflects the traits I dislike most about you. A person can infantilize another without that person actually being an infant.

I'm sorry you think my question is stupid, but thank you for answering it. You are at least that polite. you wouldn't intentionally or directly call a conversation partner an infant. 
But you cannot be sure, no one can, that the person hearing words like this won't be insulted. When you tell someone, "The person you like is infantilizing you," they are very likely to hear, "you are an infant." Even though you didn't mean to say that. And if those words do land that way, they are likely to try to politely disengage from the conversation. They're less likely to tell you, "hey, don't call me an infant." So they will offer you very little in the way of meaningful feedback.
The emotional and empathetic part of your brain knows that I am right, intuitively. But you disengage that part of your brain before you come here, because you are trying to use logic only.

Now all of this is a digression from the point I'm trying to make, but it's a digression you forced me to take with your incessant need to land insults before you've fully understood what the other person is trying to get at.

The point I'm trying to make is that No one becomes a Fox News talking head or social media YouTube personality without understanding the art of persuasion.  The school of grifters going on Fox News and PragerU and Turning Point, they have spent years of their lives learning the art of debate and persuasion. They may be black, but they are not playing to a black audience.  They know that their words are more likely to offend black people than to convert them. But they are not trying to convert black people to conservative viewpoints. They are trying to inoculate white people like you from being persuaded by the much larger masses of black people saying that there truly are grievances in need of redress.

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