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« on: January 28, 2011, 10:27:08 PM »

I'm not a big fan of pro-choicers of the militant feminist variety, who mostly tend to only spew extreme strawmen and do as much of a disservice for their side as people like Randall Terry do for the other side.
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« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 01:32:02 AM »

I also dislike those who are better described as anti-choice pro-abortion rather than pro-life pro-choice and take the stance for all the wrong reasons.

This accurately sums up what I said above. So it seems like both sides on abortion hate many on their own side (not a surprise really.)
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2011, 02:24:04 AM »

In the run-up to the Iraq War and while it was a hot topic, I also disliked liberals who went after pro-war conservatives as "chickenhawks", not only is this a logical fallacy (poisoning the well), it the type of argument that could easily collapse when confronted with someone who doesn't meet the criteria, take someone like McCain who was so staunchly pro-war for example.

Semi-related are the anti-Bush people who were obsessed with him going AWOL, which ranks about around #1000 for reasons to oppose him and has about as much relevance to any modern day politics as the East India Tea Company. It might've been a somewhat relevant "issue" in 2000, but in 2004 it was just as dumb as if Obama's 2012 opponent decides to make their campaign largely about Jeremiah Wright.
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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2011, 09:22:40 PM »

I'm not a big fan of pro-choicers of the militant feminist variety, who mostly tend to only spew extreme strawmen and do as much of a disservice for their side as people like Randall Terry do for the other side.

In the run-up to the Iraq War and while it was a hot topic, I also disliked liberals who went after pro-war conservatives as "chickenhawks", not only is this a logical fallacy (poisoning the well), it the type of argument that could easily collapse when confronted with someone who doesn't meet the criteria, take someone like McCain who was so staunchly pro-war for example.

Semi-related are the anti-Bush people who were obsessed with him going AWOL, which ranks about around #1000 for reasons to oppose him and has about as much relevance to any modern day politics as the East India Tea Company. It might've been a somewhat relevant "issue" in 2000, but in 2004 it was just as dumb as if Obama's 2012 opponent decides to make their campaign largely about Jeremiah Wright.

Yep, both apply.

Also radical anti-Zionists are usually very terrible people. Even those who aren't out and out Neo-Nazis or radical Islamists sympathizers or whatever tend to have either have tinges of anti-Semitism (when they say things like "The Jews control Hollywood and the media and thus they are fully of pro-Israel propaganda"...way too common.) or simply complete conspiracy theorist nutjobs (like Truthers.)
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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2011, 09:50:31 PM »

That's largely caused by the facts that actual anti-Semites often speak pretty raging things just using "Zionists" as a stand-in for "Jews" when it's quite obvious that's what they really mean (for example just see Mahmoud Ahmadinjad's speeches.)
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