• How to argue a point, or how I left westboro baptist church (ted talk)
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[video=youtube;bVV2Zk88beY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVV2Zk88beY[/video] Very Relevant
Also, forcing down all possible viewpoints and positions across all political and ideological issues into 2 points, into 2 camps where even used to be some common ground leads to crap like this. This inevitably breeds anger, disgust and disenfranchisement, the "us vs them" mentality, erosion of any meaningful engagement, common ground and conversation. The cause being the "first-past-the-post" style of winner-takes-all election process an nearly all levels of government paired with gerrymandering districts, disadvantaging voters with Voter-ID laws and closing down voting booth locations in certain demographics-heavy neighbourhoods to weaken the other party. If given some choice in a relative fair system with multiply parties, people would be more inclined to actually get informed and review which positions they hold and which party they would want to be represented by instead of going for "less terrible then the other". Parties would need to form coalitions on some common ground to get a majority instead of relying on being on the cycle of "bigger party" every few election cycles to get something done. I am not very optimistic of this happening in the US any time soon, major reform would need so many obstacles to overcome.
I have a hard time agreeing with someone of the things she's said because unlike her experience of the westboro baptist church, Trump voters had a choice to vote for Trump.
Wait, why is everyone immediately relating this to Trump and politics? Her logic easily transcends political, spiritual, and culture differences. It can be applied to even the simplest of differences in opinion.
I thought you win internet arguments with epic zingers, calling people bigots, sarcastic strawmen and explaining basic terms in the most condescending way.
[QUOTE=Naota1248;51994747]Wait, why is everyone immediately relating this to Trump and politics? Her logic easily transcends political, spiritual, and culture differences. It can be applied to even the simplest of differences in opinion.[/QUOTE] Trump is more of a symptom of the political climate, still a relevant example none-the-less.
[QUOTE=Naota1248;51994747]Wait, why is everyone immediately relating this to Trump and politics? Her logic easily transcends political, spiritual, and culture differences. It can be applied to even the simplest of differences in opinion.[/QUOTE] It can apply to everything but she directly references how we call the right racists, and the left elitists.
[QUOTE=Naota1248;51994747]Wait, why is everyone immediately relating this to Trump and politics? Her logic easily transcends political, spiritual, and culture differences. It can be applied to even the simplest of differences in opinion.[/QUOTE] Because Trump is driving the largest divide in the modern world right now
Good for her. She's lucky those people got to her. Kids raised in WBC are brainwashed as fuck.
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