talking points that piss you off

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Noone on here would recognize the ones that really get on my hips.

Oh, but do explain.

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It is always a bad sign for a thread when it is responsible for adding people to my ignore list.

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More importantly, who cares who the 'party of science' is? I like my parties political.

This (a million times)

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British Dixie's posts.

The chances of RSA turning into Zimbabwe are ridiculously tiny (admittely, greater than zero but not much greater).

Of course, I can't leave without pointing out that Zimbabwe isn't actually exactly what it is in the imaginations of most racists (ie. The vast majority of the victims of Mugabe have been blacks).

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Denying that American Civil war was about Slavery.

While certainly there other issues at stake they all came down to one fundamental point - the strong structural differences in the economy and society of the South vis-a-vis the North and this was fundamentally due to slavery (and the Cotton-Export dependant economy it created).