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Constant: Randall singled out conservatives. That implies a comparison.

No, it doesn’t. You may have imputed that comparative claim to him, but he didn’t make it and I think your imputation goes beyond anything he actually implied.

Nor did he “single out conservatives” in the first place. He (1) made a statement about conservatives which had nothing to do with the category of “law and order types”, to which (2) you replied with a remark about liberals, with which (3) Randall agreed, and to which he added a further observation that most conservatives where what he called “law and order types.” At this point, (5) you replied with some remarks about “genuine law and order types” as against “cop worshipers,” at which point (6) I objected to your discussion of “genuine law and order types” as non-responsive to Randall’s point.

The only comparative statements that were at issue in this exchange were the ones that you made, in which you suggested that modern liberals were more to blame for the historical development of public education than conservatives were. A statement with which Randall agreed. And which had nothing to do with the latter discussion of “law and order types.”

Constant: Frankly such tripe doesn’t even deserve the dignity of a response.

Don’t be disingenuous. If you didn’t think it deserved a response then you would hardly be spending your time responding to it.