If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

tachikoma wrote:One thing I still don't understand is the "color/gender blind" phrase Surly Amy used to described the t-shirt. Huh? Was she just randomly throwing "social justice" buzzwords around?

It was a WHITE shirt, duh.

Perhaps what people are trying to say is that to criticise Amy through her art, i.e., to say that Amy sucks because her art sucks, is indeed wrong. However, to say her art sucks is not wrong. It does. Agree. This is kind of what I meant to say, although I'm pretty sure Dilurk said it much clearer a...

And really, I want to reiterate something...

This:
https://p.twimg.com/AxpvJEsCMAEvwdx.jpg

Is not equal to this:
http://www.atheistunderworld.com/wp-con ... ture-1.png
(mailed to her HOUSE)

Did I see that someone made a comparison between Surly Amy's 'harassment' and Jessica Ahlquist? I'm thinking I must reside on a different planet from some people. I think the reaction to the t-shirt was majorly over-the-top-whiny. If a shirt makes you feel uncomfortable, unless it's revealing someth...

Oh, and whoever did put up freethoughtblahgs should consider some Google adsense units or something. I imagine they're getting more traffic than they might have expected, and NFS charges based on bandwidth usage.

Man, too much to respond to, too little time. - Franc, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and re-reading through your blog. You destroyed my productivity yesterday because I had to stop and watch "Beyond the Darkness", which I'm amazed I had never heard of until I saw your mention of it. If I s...

I'm not really a part of this community yet, but huge thanks for this!

Its been used by Rush for years. I wouldn't object to using it in a jocular way because of that, and I could certainly imagine or forgive Kirby for not knowing that association. I stand by my statement that when you spend time explaining why you are right in using a -nazi term you cede the right to ...

Hard to reply and quote from my tablet, bleh. I agree the -nazi suffix is freely used and I usually have no problem with it. When you write paragraphs justifying your use of it, it is much less off-the-cuff and "throwaway as part of the vernacular". Regarding character slurs against DJ: I recognize ...

Paula Kirby has an opinion. She expressed it, only recently, despite being dissed by an arrogant Watson a year ago. She made a minor error in using 2 words, the use of which she carefully expalined, and has been remorselessly trashed ever since. How is she wrong? Does using 2 words make her message...

CRAP CRAP CRAP. I saw the posts a few days ago about people not wanting an edit button and I heartily agreed... BUT THAT'S HOW I SAVE MYSELF FROM LOOKING LIKE AN IDIOT! Let's just pretend I quoted properly. Relevant: can someone post (or PM me) the post referred to here: Regarding Franc Hoggle - in ...

http://www.atheistrev.com/2012/07/freethought-bullying.html I just finally got around to reading this, and this sums up my feelings much better than my attempt to express them did. Very good post. I'm not ready to tune out on the FtB bloggers yet and a lot of them are 'clean' of this, but all of th...

In contrast to Caede, I think the efforts of people like Hoggle are important. Without him it would be harder to keep track of people re-writing history by editing or deleting posts and comments. Without people like Notung, we wouldn't know that selective blocking of articulate opposition is occurr...

Thunder is going at them again on his blog. What interests me is at the tail of it. Copyright bs to stiffle debate, that tactic does not surprise me in the slightest, fftb have zero integrity, but i'm looking forward to whT underhand anti intellectual bs they have pulled now. Having watched the vid...

Eesh, this place moves fast. I second (third? fourth?) getting the Tapatalk mod installed so we mobile folks can use our squares of technology to read/comment. What underlying views? how do those views differ? Do the views actually differ or are you accepting the FTB version of other peoples' views?...

I have never seem the slimepitters pile on and bully someone for making a comment, unlike the other guys. That to me is what adults do, respect each others ideas even if they disagree. I don't see that in many places, so I'd rather have the occasional bad word and respect then the nice pink fluffy ...

Alright, I'm certain that I'm going to regret posting this, but I'm pretty much outside of all of this, being a total nobody who just consumes all these blogs, feeds and other miscellanea. I got interested in reading ScienceBlogs back around the time it first started. I'm not sure how I found my way...