The issue isn’t what you see, the issue is what intelligent people from outside of your echo chamber see.
Okay, let me rephrase what I originally said: it’s not incompatible. Do you think it’s incompatible? Based on what you say later in your comment, I guess you do. So let me ask you a more general question: do you think there are no claims one can make, such that if someone denies them, one can reasonably conclude that the person denying it is not seriously engaging with one? I’m sure you don’t (obvious counterexamples are not hard to come up with), so there must something about the particular claim I made, which makes you think it doesn’t fall under that category.
Indeed, in the second part of that comment, you say that for someone like you this claim wasn’t obvious. I believe you when you say that you had no idea about this, but I also think that, for any random person, it’s highly unlikely they are in your epistemic situation with respect to this claim. And I don’t think I have to provide evidence for claims that, in all likelihood, an overwhelming proportion of my readers already know to be true.
Even if you disagree with that, it wouldn’t change the fact that, if you had a doubt, it would have taken you 5 seconds to assuage it by looking this up on Google. I just searched “trump hate crimes election” and got plenty of evidence that a lot of people were saying that after the election. Now, if what you mean is that, given my tone and the fact that you don’t know me, it was reasonable of you not to make any effort to ascertain the plausibility of that claim, then I’m happy to concede that. But I took you, perhaps mistakenly, to be making a stronger claim.
But look, I think we’re both wasting our time here, since I’ve already decided to tone down my language and not to post anything here that is directly related to politics. So I’ll just leave it at that, because I really have work to do :-p
Okay, let me rephrase what I originally said: it’s not incompatible. Do you think it’s incompatible? Based on what you say later in your comment, I guess you do. So let me ask you a more general question: do you think there are no claims one can make, such that if someone denies them, one can reasonably conclude that the person denying it is not seriously engaging with one? I’m sure you don’t (obvious counterexamples are not hard to come up with), so there must something about the particular claim I made, which makes you think it doesn’t fall under that category.
Indeed, in the second part of that comment, you say that for someone like you this claim wasn’t obvious. I believe you when you say that you had no idea about this, but I also think that, for any random person, it’s highly unlikely they are in your epistemic situation with respect to this claim. And I don’t think I have to provide evidence for claims that, in all likelihood, an overwhelming proportion of my readers already know to be true.
Even if you disagree with that, it wouldn’t change the fact that, if you had a doubt, it would have taken you 5 seconds to assuage it by looking this up on Google. I just searched “trump hate crimes election” and got plenty of evidence that a lot of people were saying that after the election. Now, if what you mean is that, given my tone and the fact that you don’t know me, it was reasonable of you not to make any effort to ascertain the plausibility of that claim, then I’m happy to concede that. But I took you, perhaps mistakenly, to be making a stronger claim.
But look, I think we’re both wasting our time here, since I’ve already decided to tone down my language and not to post anything here that is directly related to politics. So I’ll just leave it at that, because I really have work to do :-p