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ok look. i wasn't going to do this, but obviously nothing else will do.
in your initial post, i took your scenario to be of a piece with the new and improved islamophobia of the sort legitimated by those ridiculous hearings that peter king jammed through the heimat security committee in the house on "radical islam"...i fit it into a context that way, but wasn't sure. so i asked---are you going in this direction? because it is the case---like it or not---that for people who have a Problem with ILLEGALS (remember?) and a pattern of writing arguments that use the same kind of trope to flirt with racist arguments, it's not unreasonable to ask the question.
when you clarified, i responded. i didn't feel any particular need to go further because i saw that you werent going in exactly that direction.
now you've been whining about it for post after post, acting all injured as if some Grievous Harm has been done you.
so---the **only** reason the question of which direction you were heading in came to my mind was because of **your** history of posts. period. based on that--and on the contextual factors above--and on the potentially contentious nature of the thread---i posed a question. i made no accusation.
if i had thought that you were heading down that path, you can believe i would have been all over you like white on rice.
but you weren't.
i won't apologize for asking a question. i thought my response clear.
so i don't know why you're reacting as you are. i don't see the point of it---again if there was to be a dust-up on the topic, it'd be above board and explicit. i do not back down from these things. but there isn't. you want there to be one. i don't know why.
get a grip.
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