Comment by semanticist
2 years ago
For your edit: 'honest questions' (which are in fact anything but: the person asking has no interest in the answer, and the question itself is often leading) are a common disruptive tactic used by people (normally pushing extreme right-wing ideologies) to derail a conversation.
I'm sure that you're not doing that here, but unfortunately people with genuinely honest questions have become collateral damage caused by disingenuous actors, especially among people with itchy downvote-trigger-fingers.
Yeah, I figured, which is why my original question clarified I'm not from Europe (so no vested interest) and that I might be genuinely missing the obvious answer. Which is why I was surprised by the drive-by downvote.
Thankfully people have responded and now I both understand the sentence and the why!
this "are a common tactic" gets a bit old, good way to gatekeep certain topics.
If the same "tactic" is used, why not come up with a good counter? A point stands whether it's being asked disingenuously or not.