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Perfectly reasonable and polite? He's facing 2 separate defamation cases for calling people paedophiles on Twitter.
Laurence Fox
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Perfectly reasonable and polite? He's facing 2 separate defamation cases for calling people paedophiles on Twitter.
Man of Honour
Really sorry to hear that you've had experienced this, it angers me to see. It is very concerning and I'm saddened to say that I am already in a position where I find myself thinking of how I'm going to limit/mitigate the affects this will have on my not-even-18-month-old daughter. I can only hope - despite some of the red flags you point out in your post - brave, level headed people like Mr Fox can drag the talking points back to somewhere even close to what I consider to be sanity. Unfortunately I don't think the strongest proponents of the nonsense will be up for that, and it'll be a kicking and screaming scenario.
To be fair he only resorted to name calling in retort when they made the baseless accusation that he was a racist. He then pointed out the reason he said it along with the obvious hipocrisy to highlight the point he was making. Seems like a reasonable reply IMO if you read the full story about it.
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Thanks Silvagti you beat me to it.
This is why people need to stop making baseless allegations. It completely reduces words to nothing and we see it all the time. Trump is a fascist, Fox is a racist, so and so is a Nazi etc. Fine criticise these people for the things that they should actually be criticised for and respond to the actual claims or statements they have made, but calling them names which often turn out to be completely unfounded doesn't help anyone.
If you don't like Fox then fine call him out on things that he has said. People did so with the Sikh soldiers comments in 1918 and he apologised, learnt and moved on. With the environment the way it is many people don't want to say anything. If we cannot have reasonable discussions for fear of being branded something we're not then we're going to have a real problem on our hands.
This is why people need to stop making baseless allegations. It completely reduces words to nothing and we see it all the time. Trump is a fascist, Fox is a racist, so and so is a Nazi etc. Fine criticise these people for the things that they should actually be criticised for and respond to the actual claims or statements they have made, but calling them names which often turn out to be completely unfounded doesn't help anyone.
If you don't like Fox then fine call him out on things that he has said. People did so with the Sikh soldiers comments in 1918 and he apologised, learnt and moved on. With the environment the way it is many people don't want to say anything. If we cannot have reasonable discussions for fear of being branded something we're not then we're going to have a real problem on our hands.
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Not familiar with him....is he just a toned down Katie Hopkins?
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No he really isn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgyYluoDhAs
There's plenty of long form discussions with him so feel free to make up your own mind. Sure he's made a few gaffs but that happens when you speak your mind. He strikes me as quite a reasonable chap.
Caporegime
@NVP that's just utter crap. Why would they even think that's appropriate for kids?! Just let them be kids and provide mindless entertainment or learning of educational basics ffs.
No. Completely different. He gets labelled the same but he's an articulate and friendly person. He just has the "wrong" politics (centre right, instead of hard left) and so gets labelled a misogynistic racist, etc. I've followed him on ******* for a while so I could make up my own mind and, as mentioned above, he's actually a reasonable guy who's just prepared to speak his mind. I don't agree with everything he says. But he does say some things I do.
Look at the absolute state of this post
Not at all. I can understand people disagreeing with his politics, but not because they're absurd or outlandish. The fact that he is so 'boring' and common sensical is what makes him so outrageous to loud twitter.
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Had a read up, just seems a harmless tool, though bordering on a bit of a mentler.
This is what "liberal" and/or [in far too many cases] left has become - they don't listen to other people's views or engage with other peoples opinions, they've already made their mind up what is best, what people should be doing, and if another opinion or view can't be ignored or people don't conform to it they attack the person/messenger.
They *always* attack the messenger, you can't find a person who they don't hate, it's incessant and hostile personal character attacks. They think they're on the side of good and righteous, so it's all justified. They are good and the opposition is literally evil, which is such a dangerous mindset, completely lacking self awareness with compounding ignorance. People who consider themselves "intelligent" yet spend their lives telling people they're scum on Twitter and should kill themselves; you couldn't make it up.
I won't pretend to be particularly intelligent and definitely limits to my self-awareness - but I do try to be self-aware, to question my beliefs, etc. it scares me how increasingly there seems to be more and more people who completely lack self-awareness and as much as I hate to band the term around literally act like NPCs - when all the information is in front of them which articulately, conclusively shows their opinion to be completely detached from reality, even when you can get them to admit it in that instance, you still find them a short time later espousing the same views unmodified. Quite frankly it scares me for the future.
Seems that the regular anti-trumpers in the trump SC thread fit that description.
Everything I have seen from Fox seems very sensible and in most cases, quite liberal in the classic sense (free speech etc).
Man of Honour
Couldn't have said it better :'D I actually lost it reading this.
Seems that the regular anti-trumpers in the trump SC thread fit that description.
Everything I have seen from Fox seems very sensible and in most cases, quite liberal in the classic sense (free speech etc).
I don't go in there anymore, that section should be nuked from orbit
'Liberal' when it suits them. Pro choice on COVID safety measures and pro life on abortion.