politics
"Someone treating a comment as indicative of dangerous ideology because they're jumping to conclusions based on what *they themselves* would do or believe, rather than actually listening to the views of the person making the comment" sure is a recurring theme in politics
re: politics
Like, seriously. When group A accuses group B of being violent/dangerous/whatever based on what they say, ask yourself "what unspoken assumption would need to be true for their conclusion to be correct?" and then look at which of the two parties that assumption *actually* applies to
Works for an awful lot of interpersonal conflicts too, by the way
