Should 'excessive hyperbole' as a moderation option exist?

[Tartarus Sauce]

YH is an outright chad and the hate he gets is among the most unmerited in the forum. He does not use bigoted language. He stays polite. He simply expresses views that are very different than yours, and you for whatever reason cannot accept that.

For the record, I also disagree with YH on certain issues. I think his stance on the Confederacy is unmerited and wrong, and that if it is truly liberty he seeks to focus on, the American Revolution or the Texas Revolution are far better exemplars of those principles. I think he takes a slanted and ignoble view of the values that America still stands for today, and I think his refusal to fully align himself with the Republican Party, despite it being a far better representation of the principles that I believe we both stand for, is also foolish and stuck in the past. But do I hate him for any of that? No, because mere disagreement is not a cause for hatred, when that disagreement is not truly evil (ie, being a Communist). It's a lesson most of this forum could stand to learn. A hundred more posters like Dule, lfromnj, and YH would make this forum an infinitely better place.

I find it highly amusing that you’re trying to give a lecture on not letting political disagreements drive hatred, yet have also staked out the position in other threads that you believe being a communist should be grounds for execution.

Perhaps you’re just not the right carrier for this message.

[Tartarus Sauce]

YH is an outright chad and the hate he gets is among the most unmerited in the forum. He does not use bigoted language. He stays polite. He simply expresses views that are very different than yours, and you for whatever reason cannot accept that.

For the record, I also disagree with YH on certain issues. I think his stance on the Confederacy is unmerited and wrong, and that if it is truly liberty he seeks to focus on, the American Revolution or the Texas Revolution are far better exemplars of those principles. I think he takes a slanted and ignoble view of the values that America still stands for today, and I think his refusal to fully align himself with the Republican Party, despite it being a far better representation of the principles that I believe we both stand for, is also foolish and stuck in the past. But do I hate him for any of that? No, because mere disagreement is not a cause for hatred, when that disagreement is not truly evil (ie, being a Communist). It's a lesson most of this forum could stand to learn. A hundred more posters like Dule, lfromnj, and YH would make this forum an infinitely better place.

I find it highly amusing that you’re trying to give a lecture on not letting political disagreements drive hatred, yet have also staked out the position in other threads that you believe being a communist should be grounds for execution.

Perhaps you’re just not the right carrier for this message.

I don’t believe that being a communist alone is grounds for execution. What I believe you are referring to is my saying that the actions of Pinochet in the 80s were justified due to their crisis circumstances, which I believe they were. Even then though, yes, I do hold communists of all stripes in contempt. Communism is an ideology built upon theft, evil, and base ludditism (labor theory of value). My general stance on “acceptance” is that I consider near all non fascist/communist ideologies open for debate, but that I consider those two ideologies to be so fundamentally evil as to be unworthy of respect.

It was actually in reference to your stance on the Vietcong Cath pulled up in another thread, although finding out you thought Pinochet was justified in his actions is still horrifying to learn.

Still, my initial characterization does appear to have been incorrect. My apologies.