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Sometimes, when somebody says “Why don’t you ever see [feminists, anti-war activists, gun control opponents, tax protesters, liberals, libertarians, environmentalists, right-wing populists, left-wingers, …] talk about [this issue that seems hypocritical of them not to talk about]?!” they have made a thorough effort to look through a systematic sampling of the things said by their political opponents, and have made a good-faith effort to find them saying something about that issue, and they failed to find anything. Sometimes it is possible for this to be the result of good-faith research and genuine curiosity rather than a cheap partisan gotcha game. Sometimes, but almost never.