freediver wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2017 at 8:55am:
So basically neither of you can explain how I misrepresented John. John will not even say that I misrepresented him. But he will let you say it and continue leading you up the garden path.
The post I quoted is where I would put John's transition in this debate from imbecile mode to jellyfish mode. He has not actually said anything on the topic since, and won't until he starts backpedaling in earnest. He just offers more and more elaborate excuses for why he cannot possibly give a straight answer.
Still, it must amuse him to see you leap to his defense and give the answers he cannot give. Are you suggesting that John wholeheartedly agreed with my summation, but then started backpedaling in the same post by pretending I said something completely different?
How many threads do you think we should have about John's irrational fear of giving a straight answer?
Read the first post in this thread. It explains exactly how you misrepresented him.
Johns Reply to you was
Quote:a rather simplified comment but pretty much spot on, yes. You can't jail people for thinking bad thoughts fd.
You edited the quote deliberately and with malicious intent to read.
Quote:a rather simplified comment but pretty much spot on, yes.
The edited part of the quote
Quote:You can't jail people for thinking bad thoughts fd.
Quite clearly is a reference to free speech. and puts the first part of the quote in a different context. In editing that section you made it appear that john was defending Nazi's, when he was actually defending free speech.
That is all up there and explained in the first post of this thread.
So when you write.
freediver wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2017 at 8:55am:
So basically neither of you can explain how I misrepresented John. John will not even say that I misrepresented him.
You have once again misrepresented the situation as this has been explained.
Further when John writes ....
John Smith wrote on Aug 23
rd, 2017 at 7:46am:
freediver wrote on Aug 22
nd, 2017 at 11:23pm:
Behold the tapdancing apologist.
John Smith wrote on Aug 20
th, 2017 at 12:21pm:
freediver wrote on Aug 20
th, 2017 at 12:17pm:
So we should refrain from criticising Nazis until they actually do something wrong, or openly reveal their hate?
a rather simplified comment but pretty much spot on, yes.
Is this misrepresenting you John?
still pretending ehh FD.
Where's the rest of that conversation? Ar eyou worried you'll look an even bigger fool if you put it up?
The highlighted section clearly indicates that John feels he was misrepresented. So when you write
Quote: John will not even say that I misrepresented him.
that now has been shown to be a misrepresentation.
By my count that is strike 3