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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 01:20 AM
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23. What In The World Kind Of Obscure Site Is That? How Long Did You Actually Have To Search To Finally
Edited on Fri Dec-15-06 01:23 AM by OPERATIONMINDCRIME
find a post from a right-wing site that contained distasteful enough rhetoric on this subject to make a thread on?

Now of course, the poster was extremely distasteful and probably 12. But to my surprise I've actually found most RW'ers to have been extremely civil and respectful on this issue. Not that I enjoy or seek out giving them praise, but what I really don't ever like is when shit is cherry picked just for sake of denigrating an entire group, no matter who the group is.

And lord knows they do it to us, I know. But using some one-off comment from some jerkoff found on some obscure rw site no one has heard of, in order to start a thread saying "see how horrible they are?" is quite disingenuous and disappointing to me.

And don't mistake this for me defending the RW or RW sites. They can do that themselves and I could give a rat's fat ass about them when it comes down to it. But I just can't stand when something is cherry picked purposely for sake of creating a point that doesn't exist, or doesn't exist to nearly the degree it had been portrayed. I hate that cherry picking for any reason, by any group, for any cause, political or not. (Maybe I'm sensitive to it, since as an analyst who works with tons of data, I've seen how others have cherry picked shit to make points that weren't real, or manipulated findings just to skew results to their liking. That's why I'm so damn good at my job. I'm able to be objective and let the facts of the data speak for themselves, sometimes to the point where the conclusion completely surprises me. It's about integrity and honesty. Cherry picking is neither.)
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