Posted: Aug 15, 2019 6:58 pm
Spearthrower wrote:Regina wrote:
Ah, get it now. So we cannot really despise people like Trump, because, after all, we are despising these peoples' character traits, and those are genetic? Or are they learned patterns of behaviour? And if they are learned behaviours, who taught the poor mites, and aren't those villains responsible? And how do you distinguish between the two? So many answers, but not enough questions.
I'm not really sure quite what it is you 'get' when your points seem to be coming from nowhere and don't appear relevant to anything preceding them other than things you've said. However, this is the News Politics and Current Affairs subforum, so presumably the hostile snarky tone is really the main point of your post?
What's that called in forum-speak? Yup, tone-policing, I guess.
Anyway, let's straighten that out:
"What's the expression? Something like - we despise what we see of ourselves in others - the visceral antipathy Scot has for Trump perhaps suggests there's an awful lot to see there."
This is a very thinly veiled personal attack on Scot Dutchy, which you chose to dress up as pseudo-psychology (which in itself is bit of a redundant expression). You are trying to argue that racism etc. are learned behaviours and therefore not character traits which we supposedly see in ourselves when we criticize others.
This distinction is an interesting one to make, but is in fact irrelevant here as you did not specify (because you probably don't know) whether Scot despises "character traits" or "behaviours" in Trump. My guess is: both.
To sum it up, you pulled a claim out of the conversational sewer to attack Scot and that claim is simply unaldulterated bollocks. I'm sure you know that but never expected to get a reaction. You were attacking Scot, after all. And no, he's no mate of mine.