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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Mostly, when I ask a specific followup question, it does not get a direct answer or is completely ignored.
Like now, I am going to ask you to direct me to a specific example that illustrates what you are talking about. Just give me a thread and a starting post #.
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Here.
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...ml#post2580359
See also: many other posts in that thread.
The short version is that you attempted use a single point of data as evidence for the existence of a trend. You can't do this and expected to be taken seriously. That's like using today's local high temperature alone as evidence that it is cooler today than it was yesterday. Without rereading the whole thread, it seemed like you were under the impression that the fact that you know people who wouldn't send their kids to a Chicago public school meant that Obama's choice for Secretary of Education
did nothing to improve the schools while he was in charge of them. While it quite possibly might be true that the dude in question did not do anything to improve the Chicago Public School System, your basis for believing that he did nothing to improve the Chicago Public School System was erroneous. When I pointed your faulty reasoning out to you, you just restated it. Then you left me hanging.
This type of thing is fairly common and I would scare up more examples if I thought it would make any sort of difference. But it doesn't because in the end, you're going to read the evidence however the hell you want to and believe whatever the hell you want to believe. And this isn't even to single you out, because many other folks here do the exact same thing regardless of which side of the aisle they happen to reside on.
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Is this an exaggeration to accentuate a point or a bit of hyperbole?
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Nope. See the third to last sentence in post #509.
Or this:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...-nom-op-5.html
Where certain folks *knew* that Obama was just hankerin to keep the white man down via his supreme court nominee...