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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 8944893" data-attributes="member: 2525">Yes. Hyperbole can illustrate a point. It's in fact the only legitimate use of hyperbole. If it's acknowledged as such, and made clear you're not attempting to draw a comparison between the impact of the events just the phenomenon (in which case how easy it is for one even to escalate from another and then another etc, very quickly) it's a useful and honest tool. It's one reason we study history and literature and psychology and sociology and a host of other topics - to examine how humans behave, which sometimes results in rapidly escalating beliefs and behaviors in ways which isn't always expected.I am questioning why you're trying to paint what I said as me claiming the impact of those events is what should be compared despite my making it clear that was not in any way how I was attempting to use it. It sort of edges on a personal attack to keep suggesting that accusation when it was so utterly clearly not what was happening.I've read extensively on both topics, which is why I brought them up. And yes, it was a slippery slope and unquestionably not the intended consequences of the dictatorial actors. I mean, are you suggesting Mao's plan all along was for the Struggle Sessions to happen and that his mass movement of his staunchest youth followers to rural areas was not his emergency reaction to that unexpected result? If you are, I'd say it might be you who could use a refresher on the topic. I've never seen a single historian suggest this was in any way a "flat path towards their goals."What are you talking about? I didn't say plus threads. Read what I said again. I was not talking about plus threads - I even said I prefer the method we use here at ENWorld, which is to use plus threads.The concept of a Plus Thread IS NOT THE SAME as the concept of an A-Game thread. Definitely distinct things. We don't have A-Game threads here. A-Game threads are the concept I was talking about. And everything I described is very real for them in many places.This isn't about progressiveness, and I don't appreciate you trying to play the victim here and starawman my arguments like you just did. You declared slippers slope as easy to avoid - it's not. Things absolutely can escalate quickly and in unintended ways and I've gone to quite the lengths to give you examples and be honest about those examples. If other people have made some unreasonable arguments to you about the topic that's on them, not me. Don't lump me in with some other group. It's you and I talking here, not you against some easy box you an fit me into and then dismiss.</blockquote>

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