True or false?

[Warren DeMontague]

23. Jeff is perfectly capable of explaining his own words, but I feel the need to mention, here:

it's pretty damn clear in that post what the context for the statement "silence is consent" is, and is not. Taking those 3 words totally out of context to try to claim, oh, (to make some completely random theoretical example) that said statement was supposed to be about sexual consent and, by extension a form of rape apologia, is lame and blatantly disingenuous.

For instance, this statement:



is a political statement, a statement about the implied duty of people to speak up against policies or viewpoints they find objectionable. That if you don't object, you're assenting. I used to see people with that bumper sticker on their cars, all the time. They were liberals like me making a statement about the Bush Administration, mostly. Would anyone argue- with a straight face- that they were really making a statement of rape apologia on their cars? Give me a break.

Now, leaving aside the specifics of whether ALL viewpoints which could be objected to are necessarily objectionable - like, I'm sure there are now republicans who use that bumper sticker about Obamacare- it's still NOT about sexual consent.

If people want to 'score points' based on the words of others on this board, they really ought to be able to do it without bald-faced misrepresentation.