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I'll give you an example of how it goes wrong.
Let's say there are some stories coming out that the shooter may have been an angry atheist with general disgust for religion. That could be brought up, and SHOULD be brought up.
How do you bring it up? Post a reliable source, and introduce the possibility of that playing a part in the motive.
How do you NOT bring it up? Post a youtube propaganda video that claims the event occurred because the man was an evil leftist ANTIFA agent who hated Christians.
That is the difference between the people who get carded or criticized, and the people who actually contribute and have good discussions. You can bring anything up in a reasonable way, but you cannot be reasonable with propaganda and outrageous claims.
I'm done derailing the thread with you.
You're just,
Deliberately derailing the thread with unverified information from bogus sources in the immediate aftermath of the event is just plain shitty, especially when they were specifically warned not to do it.
They had no intention of an honest debate and only wanted to somehow blame all their political "enemies" for the actions of one person like they do every time this happens.
I just see it as a very slippery slope, to card people and remove their ability to post if they have posted factually incorrect information. Who gets to determine what is bullshit or not?
I see it as the role of the posters on this forum to correct misinformation and make arguments against fallacious statements. Moderators ought to focus on keeping the debates clean of personal insults and such.
Those who keep posting hoax videos, are only going to make themselves look like jackasses. People should retain the right to do that.
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