Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

Straw man argument.

Nobody is disallowing opinions but rather challenging opinions that are based upon misinformation and filled with logical fallacies. Both of those failings are also challenged by good teachers from the age of reason onwards.

nationalism, bigotry, isolationism and the like aren't likely brought on by economic dislocation; they were lurking and needed only to be brought to the surface by a demagogue like Trump and by the likes of the GOP 'freedom caucus' in the House, preceded by the Tea Party responding to the Great Recession and the black secret Muslim president without a birth certificate.

That was the wide spread opinion of most Republicans, and I accorded it no respect whatsoever anymore than I accord it now to antivaxxers and election deniers. In other words some opinions are absolutely bat 💩 crazy and deserve to be called out as such without regard for the feelings of those who hold them.