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In reply to the discussion: Should DU allow rightwing propaganda to be promoted here? [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Your whole poll is based on a logical fallacy that's such a classic it has a name in Latin: petitio principii or, in the vernacular, begging the question.
You simply want to assume, as a given, that the cartoon that still has you in such a lather was RW propaganda. In a couple of your posts in this thread, you've used the term "100%" and you've said or implied that there's no possible basis on which anyone could reasonably disagree with you.
Back here in the real world, people who agree with the general proposition about not promoting RW propaganda will, on occasion, disagree about applying that principle to particular cases. I thought the cartoon was primarily about Chinese cyber-espionage, not primarily an attack on Obama. It's very unfortunate that you persist in refusing to recognize that anyone could hold that view.
Particularly striking is your comment in #107: "you should really learn to be able to tolerate people talking back to you and disagreeing, especially when they have been proven correct". That's a classic statement of the authoritarian mindset, cloaked, with presumably unintended irony, as a call for free and open discussion. This infects your whole poll; I'm not going to sign on with a Yes vote because of the significant danger that you'll interpret Yes votes as going way beyond the text of the poll and incorporating your view that you can be and have been "proven correct" on a subjective issue where many DUers disagreed and continue to disagree.
You should also tone down your complaints about unkind things that were said about people on your side of the disagreement. There were a lot of excessively harsh comments from both sides. The bottom line is that you and your allies got the post hidden. In light of that, your focus on your status as victim is more than a little off-putting. Nobody likes a sore winner.