I think it's picking nits, if you ask me.
The common factor is mindless emotion in control, and it serves only those who gain power from mindless emotions. I submit that the outrage that results in political action can do a hell of a lot more damage than the outrage (or rage, if you will) that creates localized violence.
On this board this has been demonstrated by calling for the destruction of political opposition, pushing legislation on the wave of mindless emotion, and essentially hogpiling on anyone who raises the complexities of the issue, or refuses to meekly accept the only solutions the Left has ever proposed for this issue through its entire history.
"Baboons can be angry. We're the ones who are supposed to be thinking." This means that "we" should not be behaving like baboons. It is not calling anyone a baboon, here or elsewhere.
Come to that, I've been called one hell of a lot worse than a baboon here, many times, and directly, not by an analogy or metaphor.
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- An opinion on gun control
- Following the broader Conservative pattern.
- I share your dismay
- Us vs. Them
- Well...
- There's a couple of assumptions you and others seem to be making about my position
- Immediate action
- I realize we all react to things differently
- Immediate action
- I don't think you believe very much of this post.
- There's a couple of assumptions you and others seem to be making about my position
- I share your dismay
- Following the broader Conservative pattern.