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Originally Posted by frahse
Simply,
1. Maybe I shouldn't have used that word "dichotomies." Perhaps it exacerbated your reaction.
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My response was not a "reaction" any more than it can be said to have been "exacerbated" (made worse) by your use of
dichotomies. A polite and reasonable answer is not made shrill by someone else's desire to discredit it. It remains the same regardless.
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2. My younger son is quite the "polemicist" and I find that dealing with one of those is all I stand.
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My response would have had to be strongly critical and likely political in order to be construed as "polemical." In fact, I suggested that fighting over brands is pointless and acrimonious.
So to sum:
The posts to which you refer do not seem polemical to me, nor were they "made worse" by anything you said. In fact, they argued for a return to a dialog predicated on mutual respect.
Analyzing what someone says is not the same as being impacted by it negatively.
It seems to me that people often complain of what they fail to recognize in themselves, and that this is to be expected -- self-examination can be nearly impossible.
That said, if the tone of this thread seems exacerbated or polemical, then why not examine all of the posts on it and not simply mine?