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And the thing to remember most is that the side we need to defeat doesn't care about any of these terms.

If you instead choose to level these "academic" arguments at allies because they're more likely to address your concerns and engage like a human being, you are making a mistake. A human mistake, but a huge mistake nonetheless.

It's so easy when you're charged up emotionally and scared and also prepared to exercise your knowledge and express your feelings, you might not know what to do with all that energy other than try to rip apart someone adjacent to you because it's easier than feeling like you're beating your head against a wall arguing with the actual mindless blocks of concrete who make up the conservative right.