All due respect but you are waaaay off here, Joe.
I said:
"I mean that there's a microscope on AOC because conservative news knows their viewers/readers love to hate on young women of color."
You call that an accusation. Who am I accusing? Conservative news organizations? I guess Their viewers in general? I'd say it's more of a characterization than an accusation, but fine. Both are accusations/characterizations I could have defended, if you'd asked.
But you didn't ask about those claims. Instead you asked me about "conservatives here on this forum," a group I hadn't even mentioned in the previous post. So there's the first problem with your angle here, IMO. This is why
@parasaurolophus said it seemed like you were trying to trap me. I hadn't said
anything about specific posters or even posters in general, and you chose to steer the conversation towards that subject.
You then asked me if I thought that that they "love to hate on young women of color." I gave you my honest and careful answer: "some of them, probably." If anything that was too cautious- in a group this large
of course there are going to be some bigots, just like there's probably some people who have committed sexual assault or driven drunk or cheered for an opponent's injury or drank milk directly out of the carton. That's not an accusation, it's a statistical probability/educated guess. I was even careful to say that I didn't think it was true of most of them. So there's the second problem. The third problem IMO was when you said I was claiming that some specific people "can't think for themselves," an accusation I hadn't made.
This isn't really related but as for the Trump thing: you pressed me on why I thought some members of a group were OK with hating on women of color. As much as you may hate to admit this (and I totally understand why you do), I am 100% certain that Trump supporters are, on average, more bigoted than non-supporters, on average. There is a
TON of evidence on this. So if you ask me why I think some small percentage of a larger group of people are bigots, and that larger group has been shown to contain a disproportionate number of bigots, that is simply evidence supporting my conclusion. As is their support for a politician who runs on openly bigoted policies and makes openly bigoted statements, of course. Supporting Trump doesn't make you a bigot, obviously, but if you take a sample of 20 people who all supported Trump and ask if
some of them are bigots, the fact that they voted for Trump is a fairly solid argument for "yes."