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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Don't like my positions?
Challenge them or ignore them, I don't care either way. But don't think you know me or anything about me or pretend to project your perceptions on me.
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1. The problem is when you attribute your assumptions and even your words to people and publications with whom you disagree. You do that a lot.
2. The "you don't know me defense" is strangely personal in a conversation like this. I've seen it here before, and what I've noticed is that it's frequently made by people who are themselves in the habit of making assumptions -- often in previous posts in the same thread -- about knowing other people's unstated motives. We criticize in others what we fail to recognize in ourselves.
Beyond that, what's unsurprising is that complaints about others' comments on the recurrence of Amazon cheerleading issue from the same people who defend Amazon aggressively on every thread. If you're not a cheerleader, then you needn't defend yourself against the irrelevant, since you're already who you are and, in your words (roughly), the rest of us "don't know you" in any absolute sense.
The depressing thing is that you're smart and informed and make a lot of excellent points. You don't need to infer shadiness on the part of a person or publication in order to win a debate.