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[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

Your style is to speak in absolutes. I think that rubs many people the wrong way.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I make statements, I rarely state that I am entirely correct. It has always confused me that people load their own shit onto my statements and/or make them things that they are not.

I'm not trying to attack you here, so I hope you don't take this personally. I clicked on posts you have made, and only had to go back to last night before I found an example.

In the unpopular opinions thread you said:

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Democracy is a terrible option. No true American wants democracy.

Now the first sentence is an attack against democracy. An attack against an idea. No problem there. Everyone here does that - attacks ideas. But in the second sentence, you personalized it.

By saying that no true American wants democracy, you are saying that anyone who wants democracy is not a true American. If I am a person who considers myself a true American, and I also want a democracy, you have just insulted me.

You make statements like this with regularity, which means you are insulting groups with regularity. Eventually, you get around to insulting almost everyone here.