Liriena wrote:Hirota wrote: Do we have a statistic for how many people were assaulted at Berkeley? I'm sure those statistics paint a flattering picture of of these protesters
Perhaps.
Now, what was the point of you attempting an equivalency here?
The key point I'm making here is that we can use whatever justifications we want to make sweeping assertions about demographics of peoples, but the problem isn't the statistics themselves, but how they are abused to make those sweeping assertions and justify snarling.
It's certainly not one party doing this either.
Alvecia posted to an example of Milo being critical of homosexual relationships (incidentally I'm not sure this particular example would qualify as "self-hating," but I have seen other interviews with a similar tone). In that article Milo posts to a number of studies that make claims about the harm children experience living in a same-gender parent family ( maybe that might not be a shock when one of the studies is carried out by someone from the "The Catholic University of America" - although some of the others
are less dubious).
I disagree with the assertions made by Milo as a result of that evidence, just like I disagree with the assertions by some on the left that all Trump voters are racist etc etc. I think that instead of saying
x therefore
y, we should try and understand why
x happens in the first place to provide us with a more nuanced and informed understanding of
y.
But, as I'm sure you'll agree, it's much easier to demonise ones foes, paint everything as black and white and employ snarl words to belittle. I know I've done it from time to time, much to my chagrin.