Why is calling someone a rascist and dismissing them so much more fun than having a intelligent conversation ?

@IronHamster He should be required reading.

@AbbeyRhode The playbook that's doing the most damage right now is creating a stereotype out of people's political views (liberal, right wing) assigning all the most extreme behaviours of the few to [u]all[/u] of them, and believing it's true. Social media and some traditional media feed this (including trolls from Russia, China), even though it's patently untrue. As long as people keep doing that, dialogue and democracy are dead.

@Abstraction great point...thanks

"The imposition of PC has no logical end because feeling better about one’s self by confessing other people’s sins, humiliating and hurting them, is an addictive pleasure the appetite for which grows with each satisfaction. The more fault I find in thee, the holier (or, at least, the trendier) I am than thou. The worse you are, the better I am and the more power I should have over you." Is this quote better?

@ianR0ckwell An unattributed quote about what may or may not apply to this situation, devoid of original discourse?

No, not better.