He didn't, he demonstrated an entirely different issue.

It's literally the same situation, just flipped. I don't know about you, but flipping situations is one of the best ways to gain perspective.

My point is that he dismissed the initial, larger issue in a way that undermined the severity of it.

I mean, you can interpret it however you want, but the fact is that he never explicitly dismissed the issue.

I have already explained how he did that: He literally dismissed the initial topic by deflecting to a different one.

Well your explanation is not a great one. If someone starts a debate about one group committing violence against another, it's pretty ridiculous to think the opposite won't or shouldn't be brought up.

I would gladly engage in an alternate discussion on his topic, but nice try.

Apparently not. The only thing you've done is insisted that it shouldn't be discussed since it's not as large of an issue (which is a fallacy by the way).

He drew attention from the issue brought up and onto a different issue.

So? A lot of insight can be gained by demonstrating that the problem is more complex than OP made it.

The initial issue brought up is larger, both proportionally and as a sum, than the one he brought up.

I'm not going to argue against that and he didn't either. What's your point exactly?

I have never dismissed police shootings. But he has dismissed the shootings of black Americans.

Show me where he did that.

This "One or the other" bullshit is completely nonsensical.

You're the one propagating that by shutting down any alternate discussions.

That isn't what he said. To simply dismiss this dangerous trend of officers being shot is foolish.

Sure, it certainly isn't for everyone.

Clearly not abstinent lol

You do know that abstinence can't result in an abortion, right?

I don't think that's true at all. I guess I can't speak for all pro-lifers but I think it's a huge stretch to say that they don't want to teach safe sex.

Are you kidding me? Since when do conservative Christians support promiscuity?

You're saying pro-life don't care about sex? Ho-kay...

What? Who is this "they" you're talking about?

Pro-life people don't care about the poor decisions that lead to the unwanted pregnancy

That seems awfully backwards.

I mean I know this is old, but I identify as an attack helicopter.

Sure it was. And even if there was ambiguity syntactically, you should've used some sense. But whatever, no harm done.

I said replace, not switch, dummy. I'm talking about intraracial violence.

I think the better analogy would be to replace "cop" with "black person."

I don't think so. But I think it has to do with the fact that it's so celebrated and glorified. People like to see credit where credit is due.

We've all seen A Clockwork Orange, we know how this ends.

Obviously this only applies to attractive guys, right?

That's actually hilarious. People are just dumb...

This is brilliant. Man I often come back to check out the CD homepage and this just made it totally worthwhile.

Oh man... Joe you never cease to amazing me with your perpetual jokes. It's been like 8 years, how do you still have new ones?

Oh wow. For some reason I thought he said Fahrenheit 451, and thought he was equating Bush to a Big Brother type figure, hahaha my mistake. Of course there is some truth to that too, but I'd say both liberals and conservatives are guilty of it.

What are you talking about?

This is like my first double post ever, sorry for the let-down lol