Oh no doubt, I’m not condemning everything Blumenthal ever did or said based on one or two bad positions, and you’re right that there is a tendency to discard everything a person says in this space because they don’t pass every single purity test that we place on them. Hell, one look at OP’s post history shows you that it’s all too easy to just end up spending more time shitting on people who you agree with on 90% of things, rather than those who you agree with 0%.
Oh no doubt, I’m not condemning everything Blumenthal ever did or said based on one or two bad positions, and you’re right that there is a tendency to discard everything a person says in this space because they don’t pass every single purity test that we place on them. Hell, one look at OP’s post history shows you that it’s all too easy to just end up spending more time shitting on people who you agree with on 90% of things, rather than those who you agree with 0%.