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Comment by alsetmusic

18 days ago

> Come on, you know that's not analogous.

Not who you responded to, but I thought it was completely fair. We were a nation filled with Sundown Towns[0,1] very recently. Some probably still exist but are more discrete about it to avoid unwanted attention from those of us who would (loudly) call bullshit on the practice.

> Nowadays, when people bring up examples like you did above, it's usually part of an attempt to shut down democratic decision making, by making false comparisons.

I think you're trying to shutdown someone who has a different opinion from yours by delegitimizing their position. It's not reading the way you thought it would.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

1. https://thenewpress.org/books/sundown-towns/

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palmotea  18 days ago

> I think you're trying to shutdown someone who has a different opinion from yours by delegitimizing their position.

I'm trying to delegimimize the delegitimization that was being directed at me.

  • alsetmusic  17 days ago

    > I'm trying to delegimimize the delegitimization that was being directed at me.

    And yet you did it again.