<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4060801392617019329WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Here’s another one for you. Assume someone brings up the topic of guns. Any actual knowledge of how a gun works, any actual technical knowledge of the topic in our world is nearly universally interpreted as indicating right wing sympathy. Anyone who has a lot of technical knowledge on the topic is highly suspect, regardless of that person’s actual political sympathies.</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w - this just seems simply a matter of overgeneralization. You don't hear from people like me, to whom being against gun rights is like being against freedom of the press.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4060801392617019329WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">One step further please. Suppose one recognizes that the speaker is using a lot of specialized terminology and responds not at all, even if one thinks one knows what is meant. Silence is interpreted as disagreement. Non-response is a negative response. This is most disturbing, for if silence is violence, it cannot be allowed. Orwell was right again.</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w - I don't understand this paragraph. Please expand (or unload as the current terminology says) I may have to go back and read my Orwell. I read all that stuff in my 20s - time for a re-read.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_4060801392617019329WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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