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A lot of Democrats support homeopathy/alternative medicine, think GMOs are bad, dismiss nuclear power, etc. It's not like only one party suffers from a lack of

A lot of Democrats support homeopathy/alternative medicine, think GMOs are bad, dismiss nuclear power, etc. It's not like only one party suffers from a lack of evidence based thinking. It's misleading to go from "Parents should be allowed to seek whatever treatment or therapy they deem fit for their children" to "Republicans are advocating gay conversion therapy", anyway. Not opposing something is not the same as advocating it.

DonHopkins 10y ago
It's misleading of you to attempt to make such a blatantly false equivalence. The DNC isn't pushing or even recognizing homeopathic therapy as part of their official party platform. You know that. The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party and written into the official platform, the way conversion therapy and climate change denial and marriage inequality are part of the official Republican Party platform and ideology. Don't be coy about the plausibly deniable wording. Everybody knows what the dog whistles signify.
- qrendel 10y ago
  > The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party Um... well... actually... https://psmag.com/why-is-hillary-clinton-making-strange-comments-about-aliens-2b9d3e0838fc https://psmag.com/why-is-hillary-clinton-making-strange-comm...
- tanderson92 10y ago
  >The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized On this point at least you are mistaken; John Podesta is Clinton's campaign chairman and a pretty big UFO nut. He hasn't been marginalized at all.
  - DonHopkins 10y ago
    Can you show me where in the DNC platform it mentions UFOs?
    - tanderson92 10y ago
      If you can you show me where I mentioned the DNC platform, then I'll be glad to do that. I was responding with a counterexample to the quoted part of your statement: I thought that was rather clear.

DonHopkins 10y ago

It's misleading of you to attempt to make such a blatantly false equivalence. The DNC isn't pushing or even recognizing homeopathic therapy as part of their official party platform. You know that. The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party and written into the official platform, the way conversion therapy and climate change denial and marriage inequality are part of the official Republican Party platform and ideology. Don't be coy about the plausibly deniable wording. Everybody knows what the dog whistles signify.

qrendel 10y ago
> The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized -- it's not official dogma promoted by the leaders of the party Um... well... actually... https://psmag.com/why-is-hillary-clinton-making-strange-comments-about-aliens-2b9d3e0838fc https://psmag.com/why-is-hillary-clinton-making-strange-comm...
tanderson92 10y ago
>The few people in the Democratic party who believe in homeopathy and UFOs are considered nut cases and marginalized On this point at least you are mistaken; John Podesta is Clinton's campaign chairman and a pretty big UFO nut. He hasn't been marginalized at all.
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  Can you show me where in the DNC platform it mentions UFOs?
  - tanderson92 10y ago
    If you can you show me where I mentioned the DNC platform, then I'll be glad to do that. I was responding with a counterexample to the quoted part of your statement: I thought that was rather clear.