jjbinx007 wrote:welch wrote:
PZ has demonstrated that he is not only a coward, but also intellectually dishonest. But if people keep sneaking into leave comments, then he gets to claim some high ground. Why give the fat fuck any ammo? Deprive him of his tools, and make him work for shit, don't just give it to him.
Even better, why don't we attack what he
says and does rather than ad hominem like that all the time? Because if we make 5 valid points showing him to be a dishonest hypocrite he'll simply say "These people photoshop me wearing diapers and refer to my appearance" instead of having to refute the arguments put forward.
Then let him say that. Here's the deal - the FtB crowd will parse
anything we say and be able to dishonestly point to something as "proof Pitters are all rapists". We're not opponents or in disagreement to them, we're the enemy. They will use their bullshit stigmatizing tactics no matter what we say, how nicely we say it, or what pics we post or don't post. Demonization is their game, diaper pics or no diaper pics.
Besides, the arguments presented here are meant only partially for the targets we know read this place. Mainly, they are for other people in the community to read and make up their own minds about this whole schism. The pics are part of the local flavor of this place, and imo we shouldn't change our personalities in some futile attempt to get the FtB/Skepchick/A+ crowd to "take us seriously". They
already take us seriously, as evidenced by their continually having to write posts to frantically try to counter our latest pointing out of their bullshit. We're their worst fucking nightmare. They just
pretend not to take us seriously, and try to belittle us to try to diminish the devastating impact our actual words and arguments have on them.
There's a lot of people in the atheist/skeptic community who don't like our style, but they sure as hell appreciate what we do here. Bank on it.