Kirbmarc wrote:
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Saad is one of the people who called "Kolnnauzer" (the compilation of old Myers posts) an Islamophobe. I posted a quote of one of his old comments along with Myers. People also called Saad's old post Islamophobic.
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If you really want to raise your blood pressure, you should read
the piece by Iris Vander Pluym that was the inspiration for Peezus' post. This blogger is one of the Hordelets that were given a spot on FTB in the absence of competent authors willing to write there. IVP has such a phobia for Islamophobia that she claims that ISIS and al-Qaeda have nothing to do with Islam. Let that sink in for a moment.
She also denies that human rights, women's rights, gay rights and freedom of speech are fundamental values of the West. She does this by pointing out that in practice western governments sometimes do things that are contrary to these values. That is like claiming that burglary is not frowned upon because there happen to be burglars. Her attitude to freedom of speech says it all:
Iris Vander Pluym wrote:[Freedom of speech is] only for white manbabies; anyone else who speaks freely to say “no” to them or point out white manbabies’ wrongness or sense of entitlement is subject to relentless threats of rape, death and other forms of violence, SWATting, doxxing and harassment campaigns in order to silence them, and often succeeding. FREE SPEECH™, everyone.
Is it really necessary to point out the countless people who are not "white manbabies" and yet are clearly able to enjoy freedom of speech? I think not.
IVP is as crazy as a rabid bat, and 100% dishonest, and as such fits in seamlessly with the other SJWs that have infested FreefromthoughtBlogs since Peezus allowed his worst sycophants* to become bloggers there. And, like all Orbitters and FTBloggers, IVP has a monstrously inflated sense of her own worth. She's a dreadful writer, like the rest of them, but this does not stop her from playing the condescending school mistress towards Sam Harris.
I did a debunking of Harris almost two years ago on this very topic. It was a tedious exercise, mainly because like all right-wing conservatives and reactionaries, he bases his irrational, evidence-free, simplistic, black-&-white views and arguments, such as they are, on falsehoods and factual inaccuracies that are a cakewalk to disprove. The task was all the more unbearable because I’ve always found Harris an unoriginal and uninteresting thinker and a witless and dull writer, so much so that I’m genuinely amazed he is not a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times.
Note how Ms Batshit accuses Harris of "simplistic, black-&-white views". I suppose that is in contrast to those much more nuanced views of her own, for instance when she claimed that freedom of speech is only a thing for "white manbabies". That is absolutely not a simplistic, black-and-white view. Iris Vander Pluym is a dime-a-dozen, obnoxious SJW. An unoriginal and uninteresting thinker and a witless and dull writer. One of a million Stephanie Zvan clones.
*Except, unfortunately, Nerd of Redhead.