Then you shouldn't write those sort of things.
I differ with your characterization for the reasons given.
Doing that is nothing more than name calling.
It really isn't, for the reasons given prior.
OK, so it's you who made the errors then.
In as much as I credited you with the lesser of two errors.
And given that I explained how it didn't have to be Clete who was the author for you be calling him racist, it looks like you're just looking for things to say.
That you don't distinguish between assertion and explanation is one reason it's fruitless to discuss with you. The other being your tendency to mix in low-brow, personally charged insult as an integral part of a response, even when you aren't the object of any insult.
I don't judge your thoughts; I judged your words. You leaped on the attack calling OP racist. To do so was utterly ridiculous.
No, I noted the subtext. Most of my objections weren't rooted in it, but it was a thing worth noting while peeling the false face of the author away from his attempt to sell the narrative. The author is defending a sort of person who is looking to justify particular actions. He sells that person as altruistic and well meaning, and put upon by angry animals. The fact that the altruist is described using a human and the recipients of his largess are described as animals, eventually dangerous, intruding and malcontent, isn't accidental. And all of it is subject to scrutiny, which I gave it.
That's why I phrased my irritation the way I did, while noting your inability to regroup once committed and a nearly bizarre attempt to argue me into a position I simply didn't take.
That's me again. Are you using a phone or something that interferes with the quote function?
You've had this explained to you numerous times. When people post stuff supporting Darwinism, we call them evolutionists. That you think Clete's post is racist reflects poorly on Clete, regardless of who wrote it.
I think it reflects a particular weakness that I spoke to in particular. And there's a good deal of difference between your original assertion that I was calling Clete a racist, which I clearly didn't, and saying his choice to promote the piece reflects poorly on him, which it does and for the reasons I set out.
And all of this is just a side issue. OP is not racist. You made that up.
That's your assessment. I think you're mistaken for the reasons given.
Seriously? You can't be this dense.
It's such a profoundly dull comment I had to find something worthwhile to do with it. Or, the subtext is, "Stop wasting time with the side-bar that addresses nothing substantive or meaningful".
English, dude. English.
Calm down, think through what you want to say and just say it plainly.
I trimmed that down not long after, but you're omitting the context contained in the sentence that proceeded it. Here's the culled version, though it also rests on the established subject:
"Birds aren't imaginary characters, but I don't see that it matters. What does is what they represented, or rather misrepresented."
In that context it isn't difficult to read at all, though it's easy enough to misrepresent in an effort to make a dismissive point of no particular importance. What does(matter) is what they (the imaginary characters) represented, or rather (as used by the author) misrepresented.
Nope. You ascribe racism where none is involved.
That's your reading. I think it's mistaken for the reasons set out prior.
"Asserting that government programs can be better regulated than the image painted in OP is just asserting that OP has no value, while you have shown nothing that indicates it is not accurate. You're begging the question. It's a logical fallacy; you should give those up."
That's the assertion all right, but not a proof. You decided what was being asserted then blew the ref whistle. Or, you're really only penalizing your own shortfall in examination.
I don't think you have any place talking about manners after your contributions.
I think you'd have a hard time making the case. I was taught you don't start a fight because you can't win an argument, but if someone throws a punch you put them on their pants. In argument you can manage that with humor. If you do it well enough you can sometimes cause the other party to reconsider. And often enough, if I catch something that I didn't in reading over a response before posting it, I'll go back and edit it out as quickly as I can. The post you're noting is a good example. The wolves bit, while appropriate given, was culled in a slightly later edit (so much so that it doesn't show up as an edit). Mostly because I don't find that fruitful and I thought there was a better, more restrained response to your wondering for a collective about whether I'm the racist: "
Then "we" don't know much about me worth knowing."
I've also publicly apologized on a few occasions when I reconsidered my approach to a poster and found it unacceptable. I don't see evidence of editing or owning in your efforts, which is part of why I don't seek you out for engaging on a point and have for some time limited myself to necessary responses.