An analogy should make sense though. If you say that black people are "like animals", you should at least be able to substantiate that analogy or it means nothing. If I say that someone is a lying racist, it doesn't mean anything....until I have proof./\

And if I make the analogies about homosexuality that Tristan says I do, I am fully capable of making the correlation in no uncertain terms. The only dead horse that is being beat here is the one when people compare homosexuality with the racism that was perpetrated on MANY races in this country. Blacks, Asians, Irish, American Indians etc all suffered in this country at one time or another. But to compare that to the specieswide abnormality that is homosexuality, I still have yet to see that "analogy" come together with any validity.

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because they are

I only use them to you when exposing your bigotry and prejudice and self-serving rhetoric.

And, as we both know, I hardly ever communicate with you, it is indeed rare for me to make such statements.

You're getting even more boring and tiresome

You bolded the wrong part of the quote...

It should be this...

He was making a comparison, yet you twisted it into the question in the thread's title...VERY deceiving...you've lost credibility...if you had any...

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I disagree....You see THAT snippet was part of an entire thought process...
When viewed in entire context, your cut and pasted part does nothing to modify his saying that a majority of black people are criminals. Since the "majority" part really has no bearing on what he was saying other than expressing his opinion of black people. His sentence might as well read...
Since a majority of black people are criminals. blah blah blah.

The thread title came before that particular post was made....That started here.
If black people as a race really are similar to animals, it's not bigotry to say such....But if they aren't it is. The same thing I say for my views on homosexuality.

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If you only used them to me, that would actually make sense. But you have been using racial comparisons about black people for far longer than you've known me. And to people other than me...you know, since you want to bring up DtT.

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I never mentioned the aspect of him saying that a majority of black people are criminals...if you were to start with the thread title "Are most black people criminals?", then you'd have a case...

But you didn't...you intentionally twisted it into the "animal" aspect, which was only done as a comparison analogy and not a statement of fact...

Put it this way...

If you were to write "Puerto Ricans multiply like rabbits" and I started a thread based off your comment with the thread title "Are Puerto Ricans small furry animals that eat carrots and are a symbol of Easter?", you'd see I failed to get the analogy...

Which is what you did...

Now on to the bigger picture...irrelevant of the details of this thread, this much IS known...

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The reason you started this thread was NOT to instigate legitimate discussion...It was to poke another member with a stick...Any twisted defense you try to put up will fall on deaf ears...The intent is obvious...You are intentionally trying to rile members up, and that will not be tolerated...

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I just got to say this...You're kinda sexy in moderator mode redd. Can hear ya cracking that whip...

Your refusal to realize or acknowledge Tristan's argument is not a limitation on TristanRobin.
Your claim on Tristan's argument also demonstrates either a blatant dishonesty on your part, or a misunderstanding of how people use the English language.

Have you asked yourself why YOU ALONE seem to be the only one who can't get what Tristan was saying?


The reasons for the comparison are given. Explicitly.
Often in response to you displaying a specific thought process, and then I point out how that thought process has been used in the past.

But of course, you take ALL of that out of context, refuse to acknowledge my COMPLETE argument, and continue to gain a "reputation" amongst others.


Your incredulity does not make an argument negating an analogy.
Your refusal to see the argument does not make an argument negating an analogy.

You often point to irrelevant and trivial factors and pretend they somehow negate things.
You don't seem to understand (or don't care) about the issue of relevance to the argument.

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Fxashun, you are just proving yourself thoroughly unworthy for discussion.
You claim he was saying black people are "like" animals?

You misrepresent what he WAS saying.
He said "IT would be sort of like how..."
1) "IT" does not refer to "black race". It refers to the SCENARIO that was described. He is drawing a comparison upon the ARGUMENT.

2) NOTHING in that sentence structure intelligently lends itself to the conclusion "he said blacks are like animals".
If you were to sit down and DIAGRAM that sentence, showing what words were associated with what in verb, noun, adverb, adjective format, it would be clear.
Or else you would just insist on making some ridiculous contortion that supported your absurd conclusion.

I think I'll unsubscribe to this thread.

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