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In reply to the discussion: Is this blog post intolerant of the transgendered? [View all]Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)...which was those who employ guilt by association gibberish will continue to employ those half-fast tactics ad nauseum, yet will never accept the mirror argument when it comes back around on them. In other words, you are who you associate with (or who I imagine you associate with) regardless of whether that behavior has the slightest thing to do with you, but I will never take responsibility for the bad behavior of those I pal around with. It demonstrates a complete lack of cognitive dissonance. Orwell called it doublethink.
It's really a pretty good trick if you can pull it off. It means that so long as I can somehow associate your argument with something presented by some nosepicking anti-feminist posting from mommie's basement on some obscure website (whether or not you've ever even seen or heard about it), then you ARE that nosepicking anti-feminist. Meanwhile the very people I hang around with who spread hateful divisive garbage all over the internet (while I gleefully cheer them on) has nothing to do with me.