• makes an inflammatory comment
• someone responds to it
• you say you don’t want to argue about the topic you initiated
• continue to engage with that person while also admitting to looking at it from the outside in

What you say and what you want, do, and say don’t see to line up. You’d do great in US politics.

With your own mindset I’m gonna just say your government is much worse than ours in many ways and I don’t want to argue about it.