A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE "EMPTY" ASSERTION, COURTESY OF A FASCIST FLUNKY FROM THE GOP. PART 1.

 

"EMPTY" ASSERTION-  ANY STATEMENT, (WRITTEN OR ORAL), THAT CLAIMS TO BE FACTUAL, BUT HAS LITTLE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE OR DATA THAT CAN WITHSTAND PROPER SCRUTINY.  In many cases, the act of criticizing the Assertion is discouraged, AND IT MUST BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT QUALIFICATION.

Condemning calls for "more gun control," Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) wonders aloud whether "fatherlessness" and "the breakdown of families" are to blame for mass shootings.

...AND I ALSO SAW THIS LIST ON TWITTER:

Mike Lee blames single mothers. Kevin McCarthy blames doors. Ted Cruz blames unarmed teachers. Marjorie Taylor Greene blames lack of prayer. Lauren Boebert blames immigrants. Paul Gosar blames the LGBTQ community.

FROM JOHN STUART MILL

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”

WHAT IS MILL SAYING?

IF YOU TOLERATE EVIL BY NOT CONFRONTING IT, YOU BECOME PART OF THE PROBLEM.