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You're a Trump supporter, and defend decisions such as his travel ban, and call people proposing a higher minimum wage "unhinged".

I'm surprised that you're appalled by someone making a crass generalization. Maybe you only notice these kinds of vulgar pronunciations when they target things that are popular with right wingers?

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This kind of incendiary personal attack is just about the last thing we need here. Please don't do this again.

So his shallow tonal dismissal is fair game, but an identificarion of a pattern which undermines it is unlawful ad-hominem?

Seems like cargo cult moderation to me.

I was very bothered that you totally misrepresented my comment about the minimum wage. I never called anyone unhinged. I called the proposal unhinged from reality, because it doesn't take into account the economic reality of rural and small town America. There's a big difference between attacking an idea and attacking the people proposing it. Not to mention that that the word "unhinged" itself has a very different meaning when calling a proposal "unhinged from reality" than when calling a person "unhinged".

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