Quote:Because you'll call a spade any manner of antagonistic terms other than actually a spade to get a rise out of people you think may like the spade when you like the rake. Then you feign innocence while deflecting as you just did. 

 

Feign innocence? Hardly.  I'm not apologizing for having an opinion, and not giving you the kid glove treatment in order to assure you're not offended.  If you don't want to be offended, don't read my stuff.  Simple as that.  There's an ignore feature.  Use.it.

 

Quote:No, because it does nothing for the conversation. People's view points most of the time go a lot deeper than grouping them all together. Maybe you do it out of laziness because it is easier. What it does do is keep this us vs them and prove my view point right instead of looking at things from different perspectives. It becomes something you win. God forbid we go hmmmm didn't think of it that way. Or you make a good point but... Nope let's just keep the name calling going.


It has nothing to do with political correctness. Different topic/discussion.

Politics is intended to be adversarial.  Nobody agrees on everything, and not every discourse should end up being a big Kumbaya fest.  Sorry.  Nobody's mind is going to be changed here on the big issues no matter how hard you try to "soften" commentary to make it palatable for the perpetually offended.

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