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You realize that your posturing, followed by denial of the evidence given to you that doesn't fit the narrative you entered the thread with, is exactly the prob

You realize that your posturing, followed by denial of the evidence given to you that doesn't fit the narrative you entered the thread with, is exactly the problem that people are talking about here? I have experienced this first hand in New Jersey, Boston, and Colorado. It seems to me that the only people who don't see a pattern are the people creating the pattern.

QAPereo 9y ago
Asking for evidence commensurate to a claim is posturing? Edit: Claiming that you are right and someone else is wrong because they don't have evidence is posturing. Where did I claim to be right, rather than ask for evidence to support someone else's claim? You seem confused.
- imustbeevil 9y ago
  Claiming that you are right and someone else is wrong because they don't have evidence is posturing. It means the default in your mind is that you are correct and have to be proven false. There is a pattern because individuals across the country are seeing these things happen first hand. The people in this thread are evidence. Asking for links for every claim is the exact thing the GP was talking about. > You can't reason with postmodernists since they eschew science and evidence-based reason as tools of oppression. You are evidence that this is happening.
  - QAPereo 9y ago
    > You can't reason with postmodernists since they eschew science and evidence-based reason as tools of oppression. You are evidence that this is happening. Even a cursory glance at my posting history would make a mockery of that claim. Drop the empty rhetoric, bring in the evidence.
    - jimmywanger 9y ago
      > Even a cursory glance at my posting history would make a mockery of that claim. Drop the empty rhetoric, bring in the evidence. Hah! Just looking at your posting history _in this thread_ would lay waste to your statement. You said that people had to prove to you widely known facts. Fine. When people gave you evidence in terms of links, you dismissed the links and said in a huge educational system, how is this a pattern? That's a neat rhetorical trick by the way. If the evidence is too specific and easily substantiated, it doesn't indicate a pattern. A broadly based claim is dismissed as rumors and anecdote, and obviously not specific enough to be evidence. Head you win, tails I lose. Nice. I'm looking forward to seeing you respond to the other specifics that we brought up. Probably not evidence of a pattern eh? > This site has such incredible ups, but the downs are equally staggering and disheartening. You do know your comment is funny, and even funnier because you have no idea that we're all laughing at you?
      - grzm 9y ago
        > "You do know your comment is funny, and even funnier because you have no idea that we're all laughing at you?" Regardless of how wrongheaded you feel another commenter may be, it's never okay to treat someone uncivilly like this. If you don't think they're worth conversing with, that's fine. In that case, just refrain from commenting. It does no one any good to lower the level of discourse.
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QAPereo 9y ago

Asking for evidence commensurate to a claim is posturing? Edit: Claiming that you are right and someone else is wrong because they don't have evidence is posturing. Where did I claim to be right, rather than ask for evidence to support someone else's claim? You seem confused.

imustbeevil 9y ago
Claiming that you are right and someone else is wrong because they don't have evidence is posturing. It means the default in your mind is that you are correct and have to be proven false. There is a pattern because individuals across the country are seeing these things happen first hand. The people in this thread are evidence. Asking for links for every claim is the exact thing the GP was talking about. > You can't reason with postmodernists since they eschew science and evidence-based reason as tools of oppression. You are evidence that this is happening.
- QAPereo 9y ago
  > You can't reason with postmodernists since they eschew science and evidence-based reason as tools of oppression. You are evidence that this is happening. Even a cursory glance at my posting history would make a mockery of that claim. Drop the empty rhetoric, bring in the evidence.
  - jimmywanger 9y ago
    > Even a cursory glance at my posting history would make a mockery of that claim. Drop the empty rhetoric, bring in the evidence. Hah! Just looking at your posting history _in this thread_ would lay waste to your statement. You said that people had to prove to you widely known facts. Fine. When people gave you evidence in terms of links, you dismissed the links and said in a huge educational system, how is this a pattern? That's a neat rhetorical trick by the way. If the evidence is too specific and easily substantiated, it doesn't indicate a pattern. A broadly based claim is dismissed as rumors and anecdote, and obviously not specific enough to be evidence. Head you win, tails I lose. Nice. I'm looking forward to seeing you respond to the other specifics that we brought up. Probably not evidence of a pattern eh? > This site has such incredible ups, but the downs are equally staggering and disheartening. You do know your comment is funny, and even funnier because you have no idea that we're all laughing at you?
    - grzm 9y ago
      > "You do know your comment is funny, and even funnier because you have no idea that we're all laughing at you?" Regardless of how wrongheaded you feel another commenter may be, it's never okay to treat someone uncivilly like this. If you don't think they're worth conversing with, that's fine. In that case, just refrain from commenting. It does no one any good to lower the level of discourse.

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