So if someone makes a factual statement, but is considered the "road team" (as opposed to the home team), then you're OK with characterizing them as Filthy McNasty Bovver boys.No, if someone chooses to make a *provocative* statement in the other team's locker room, then they can't really expect to act all innocent when called on it.
Example: assigning a belief to a majority so you can call it a myth: Provocative, even if it were true. Asserting that false beliefs are the norm and are defended with religious fervor: Provocative, even if the claimants can provide a single example, which it would seem they cannot.
Seems simple enough to me.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
