Here's the thing, while I know this is news for you on two fronts, first, calling something out as stupid which shows a lack of knowledge and critical thinking isn't hateful, it is merely accurate, and second, critical thinking and learning are skills that can be developed.
That isn't what your dad did. He made it about the poster. Something being accurate doesn't make it not cruel to laugh and mock somebody for it.
Sure, some people are born with low limits than others, but more often than not stupid people are stupid not because they were born stupid, but because they put a lack of time and effort into improving their learning process and reasoning capabilities.
I suppose we'll just have to believe you on this.
While the brain isn't actually a muscle, it is something that gets more powerful, more efficient, more useful with practice. You're welcome to begin trying at any time.
Haha, and you get a shot in. Like papa like son. There are limits so if a person hits his limit then you're being cruel making fun of them. They can't help it any more than a person born with no legs.
Contrary to the adage, you can fix stupid if stupid can pay attention long enough to let itself be fixed. While my comments may be presented with a humorous slant, the underlying purpose is to perhaps get you to realize that, gee whiz, maybe this position does show a lack of thought and that throwing your weight behind an argument based on what tribe the arguer falls into instead of the content of their posts reflects badly on you both in terms of your own thinking skills and the thinking skills of your group that they don't do more to correct badly considered positions.
I didn't say one way or the other anything about the position.
Is laughing at stupid cruel? Probably, but far less so than letting stupid persist or letting stupid spread since a lack of critical thinking skills in, for instance, a voting Democracy, is how you end up with Donald Trump at the top of one of two major party tickets.
Your bullying and hatred is good for the victim now? You're just trying to help! Sorry, I'm not that stupid.
You are misreading me, that section was about how now that Cruz and Kasich are out of the race, their respective campaigns will have ceased digging on Donald Trump and spreading it to the press, thus requiring the press to do more digging of their own for an equal amount of dirt.
Fair enough. My bad.
According to you I was laughing before I did the research and so your line of argument makes no sense.
I was talking about laughing at me.
Or, rather, you make a scene about it being hateful because it negates you having to put in any actual effort towards examining the right wing narratives that led to the original stupid, an endeavor that would not end well for your deeply held bubble beliefs, and so you make the effort to claim a moral victory because declaring your opponent to be an asshole, a jerk, "hateful" and declaring you won is always less work and gives you that hit of instant gratification for standing up for your tribe.
None of that. I have no beliefs about the original comment. I don't care about it. You could be completely correct that it was completely wrong and I'm fine with that. I just called out your daddy for teaching you to make fun of people and laugh at them.
This is a deflection, an obvious one, a boring one, the classic ad hom of 'it doesn't matter what facts you bring, all that matters is you're a jerk so I win.', third grade logic. You said you are getting old, grow up.
Not sure what I'd be deflecting from.
Keep laughing at people, daddy is proud.
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