I’m late to the thread, but as you asked, I’ll offer that I’m willing to try Res’s suggestion, should you also be willing to give it a go. I’m not worried about the ‘extra work’, it probably can’t be any worse that what the mod team has already put up with in recent past days.
About your three questions:
Sure can; I offer my history of interaction with ajax for your perusal.Dr. Shades wrote: ↑Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:29 amIs the community here really prepared to, say, respond to the substance of Ajax18's points without calling him a racist?
Sure can; I offer my history of interaction with MG for your perusal.Does everyone have the self-discipline to deal with the meat of MG 2.0's assertions without calling him a deluded idiot?
Sure can; I offer my history of interaction with binger for your perusal.Can everyone calmly and coolly refute binger's statements without calling him any names whatsoever, even if he does so first?[/b] (Before you state that doing those things isn't the same as questioning motives, I counter by saying that doing those things is assigning motives, thus putting them into the same genus, if not the same species.)
Binger may have a tough time with Res’s suggestion, though, given that he seems to currently be assigning motive in comment after comment of his Vuarnet thread, which is paralleling the conversation in this one.
ETA: mindless, repeated posting of YouTube videos arguably presenting a certain point of view are not points, assertions or statements. They’re propaganda.