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Saturday, July 23, 2005

The two types of Internet debate

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Type A:
  • Liberal makes statement
  • Conservative responds with personal attack on liberal
Type B:
  • Conservative makes statement
  • Liberal responds with attack on statement
  • Conservative responds with personal attack on liberal

posted by Realist @ 1:56 PM  

2 Comments:

  • At 8:38 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ignorant statements.

     

  • At 4:49 AM, Blogger Realist said…

    (Note: now the premise is turned completely inside-out.)

    Actually, I think he's discovered a third type - the personal attack masquerading as an attack on a statement.

     

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