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Your biased reading of these things is exactly why there's no point to give you evidence on anything. Your goal is not to understand; it's to "win".

I'm not trying to persuade you of anything. As I said, I think you are in the same sort of laggard [1] category as other people were on other opinions about race. Although I hope otherwise, I expect you'll take your hate for Black Lives Matter to your grave.

If you were serious about ending police violence, you'd be out there trying to end police violence. Instead, you spend your time trying to shut up anti-racist people. Why? Try taking a look at who else spends their time objecting to Black Lives Matter:

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/White-Lives-Matter-grou...

[1] Per Moore's model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm




Replying 4 days later?

I seriously doubt you're "not trying to persuade [me] of anything."

You're doing a terrible job of it though. Nothing but name calling. No evidence, and no rational arguments.

(And yes, I am replying 3 days later because I am trying to convince you of something. I'm trying to convince you to have rational conversations.)


It's weird! I have a life where I go do things that are not always compatible with replying to internet randos.

And seriously, I am doing a terrible job at persuading you because I'm really not trying to persuade you of anything. As I've said, I don't believe you're persuadable.

People who vigorously mount a defense of a biased status quo rarely are persuadable because their motivation isn't rational; they're the sort of person who will defend whatever status quo they happen to be born into. That they have convinced themselves that they're the only truly rational people is also not a new phenomenon. The people who argued against the anti-slavery movement felt exactly the same way.


And yet here you were, days later, again, still replying.

And still with no evidence. Because you don't have any.


It's weird! I have a life where I go do things that are not always compatible with replying to internet randos.

And seriously, I am doing a terrible job at persuading you because I'm really not trying to persuade you of anything. As I've said, I don't believe you're persuadable.

People who vigorously mount a defense of a biased status quo rarely are persuadable because their motivation isn't rational; they're the sort of person who will defend whatever status quo they happen to be born into. That they have convinced themselves that they're the only truly rational people is also not a new phenomenon. The people who argued against the anti-slavery movement felt exactly the same way.




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