Which really sucked, because I had pretty long exchanges with both of them on other topics, especially DS on religion. I think both of them, but moreso DS, were familiar with a form of reasoning that was more theological than philosophical - i.e. they never seemed to ask questions all the way down to the root. Stopping early is how you get to "reverse-racism" complaints imo, because you never stop to consider the generation of any phenomenon prior to the form in which it currently exists.
Then once you're convinced that the world today is deeply wrong (based on present-day observations only), the rest of the CT develops quickly around it.
I don't think so. In emotionality and language he may have been pretty level, but not many posters on here would explicitly come out and say that different races should not be governed together. I don't even think the outrage trolls that hide behind coded language here hold such deep convictions.
