uspol, cw: infuriating 

Wow. Look at this mess of high-end self-delusion I found while debating a conservative furry.

newbostonpost.com/2017/11/09/u

This is a genuinely amazing feat of intellectual sleight-of-hand he's pulling, crusading against "isms" while quietly grandfathering in all the ones he personally finds meaningful.

I don't see the difference between this guy reverently rejecting classism and racism, and some Victorian don insisting no literature post-Shakespeare really matters. *shrug*

uspol, cw: infuriating 

@zebratron2084
Fortunately I don't need ism to describe his argument. Fucking sophistry.

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uspol, cw: infuriating 

@001zlnv Right? It's like watching the guy who posted it get taken in by a three-card monte dealer. -_-

uspol, cw: infuriating 

@zebratron2084 "behold as I make an argument from authority in a loud voice in the front of the room letting you know that I accept no ideas newer than early modernity. I a lawyer in the US will not accept the value of equality, even though it is prominent in the founding documents of the nation and guaranteed before the law in the equal protection clause."

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