Note: this has nothing to do with "not voting for Biden is voting for Trump" so please don't make the thread about that.
I constantly see discussions in threads devolve to someone making a statement or explaining their logic and someone replies "that's Trump supporter/Trump-ish logic." I'm not even talking about if someone says something racist or something. Just "oh that sounds illogical/stubborn/etc. to me, I'll label you akin to a Trump supporter." Can we not? The between the lines reading of this is "I'm going to compare you to a group of people infamous for racism because I disagree with you." It's an ad hominem that not only seeks to make for inflammatory conversation and arguing, but literally just seeks to pathologically define anything as "I don't agree with it/don't understand it, sounds like a Trump supporter."
Consider that viewpoints and ideas exist out of this sort of frame of thinking, and frankly consider that a lot of these ideas and thinking predate Trump and his supporters... often by decades if not centuries! Find another angle, please. It's so tired.
I constantly see discussions in threads devolve to someone making a statement or explaining their logic and someone replies "that's Trump supporter/Trump-ish logic." I'm not even talking about if someone says something racist or something. Just "oh that sounds illogical/stubborn/etc. to me, I'll label you akin to a Trump supporter." Can we not? The between the lines reading of this is "I'm going to compare you to a group of people infamous for racism because I disagree with you." It's an ad hominem that not only seeks to make for inflammatory conversation and arguing, but literally just seeks to pathologically define anything as "I don't agree with it/don't understand it, sounds like a Trump supporter."
Consider that viewpoints and ideas exist out of this sort of frame of thinking, and frankly consider that a lot of these ideas and thinking predate Trump and his supporters... often by decades if not centuries! Find another angle, please. It's so tired.