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turkeypedal55 karma

No, your motivated reasoning is clear. It is pretty easy to follow. I'll show you a diagram:

  1. Guy posts about Nazism being on the rise, including Nazi violence.
  2. You change the subject to violence against Jewish people.
  3. You then bring up Muslims, even though they are not Nazis an thus are not included in statement 1.
  4. You bring up dubious statistics to goad the guy to respond to those instead of your verbal sleight of hand.
  5. You use this to try and argue that statement 1 is incorrect, and that Nazism isn't on the rise.

It's quite clear you are using motivated reasoning to try and argue that Nazism is not actually on the rise. You try to turn sentiment on Muslims because, unlike anti-Jewish antisemitism, anti-Muslim antisemetism is often accepted.

And, checking your history, it's not surprising to find you post in metacanada, which actually turns out to be a far right subreddit. So of course you're trying to defend a far right ideology.

The guy is right: Nazism is on the rise, and you can prove that simply by looking at the incidence of neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. Nazis form the third most popular political party in the country.

And, guess what? The people of Germany, as shown by their representatives, agrees. Germany happens to know what Nazism is better than anyone.

It is disheartening that this representative didn't see through your shtick, but hopefully /u/DangerousDetlef can learn from this. Note when your opponents are using rhetorical tricks. Call them out--don't fall for them.

Again, the argument was that Nazism and Nazi-led violence is on the rise. Nothing about Muslims is remotely relevant, and Nazi-led violence is not primarily against Jewish people.

turkeypedal33 karma

Outbreaks in China happen all the time. It still wasn't clear in January it was going to become a full on global pandemic. Even in early March, there was still hope it could be contained. It wasn't declared a pandemic until March 11.

We learned from other outbreaks not to get overly worried about every one of them. It's not good for your mental health to catastrophize. Though I do wish I'd at least gotten some masks.

turkeypedal29 karma

How did you build up your falsetto to have that female head voice sound? (It's not quite like a countertenor or sopranist, but it's close.) Do you do anything different when mixing the falsetto vs. modal voice?

turkeypedal22 karma

I think people hear the stories about NBC trying to get him to remove a female first officer and a "Satanic-looking" alien and just assume NBC was against all diversity.

turkeypedal12 karma

You are aware that Germany is where Nazism began, right? They know exactly what is and is not Nazism.

Your bigotry against Germans has been noticed.