Comment by zetsurin
This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.
This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.
Even if you had managed to come up with a point by selectively quoting the post, that would still be bad. The good-faith way to engage with somebody’s post is to reply to the meaning of the overall post. It might be necessary to cut some parts out for logical flow, but that shouldn’t change the meaning of what you are replying to.
Attacking a point by attacking its supporting points is a pretty standard way of going about arguing.
It’s fully the first half of the comment rather than a few words taken out of context
I was replying to the bit I quoted?