Comments on Clotted Cognition: Love your cloak of idiocracy

Only necessary when people are being purposefully ...

2008-01-22T22:16:42.475-06:00

Only necessary when people are being purposefully obtuse.

Ok, I'm a completely new anonymous who's never pos...

2008-01-22T21:55:38.225-06:00

Ok, I'm a completely new anonymous who's never posted here before, but if you can accept that it's a valid point and that you might not have clearly communicated, why is it necessary to call someone an idiot?

Ah, I see where you're confused. If you take my se...

2008-01-22T14:32:08.409-06:00

Ah, I see where you're confused. If you take my sentence of context without the further clarification your point is valid. Any idiot can see that I was pointing to the idea behind the sign, murder, etc. Or, maybe not every idiot.

How about if you stop making this about something ...

2008-01-22T14:27:07.872-06:00

How about if you stop making this about something it's not?

Anonymous said "Is invalidation worse than attempted murder?"

You said "It's the same thing, isn't it?"

I told you you had said that and you said "Please point me to the place where I said seeking to invalidate a person or group IS THE SAME THING as murder."

So I did.

YOU said that invalidating someone's humanity is the same as MURDER. Care to explain yourself?

I don't have to pretend anything. Of course, when ...

2008-01-22T14:04:25.409-06:00

I don't have to pretend anything. Of course, when I've actually done something wrong, I admit it. I even email people to apologize. But when that doesn't fit in with their world view, it is, how did you put it? brushed aside.

My life is harder than yours in this respect. I a...

2008-01-22T14:01:57.100-06:00

My life is harder than yours in this respect. I actually have to atone for my sins. You just brush them off and pretend they never happened.

Oh, poor yooooooou! your life is so haaaaaaaard! W...

2008-01-22T13:12:58.253-06:00

Oh, poor yooooooou! your life is so haaaaaaaard! Well yeah, compared to mine. Must suck to idolize someone so fabulous.

It must be nice to ignore everything that proves y...

2008-01-22T13:07:22.847-06:00

It must be nice to ignore everything that proves you wrong. I'll have to give that a try some time, I'll bet it makes your life infinitely easier than mine.

"I just have never heard someone who teaches at a ...

2008-01-22T10:24:12.236-06:00

"I just have never heard someone who teaches at a community college called a professor."

Oh, bullshit. And now that I know your agenda and basically who you are? don't bother posting again.

I just have never heard someone who teaches at a c...

2008-01-22T06:39:54.931-06:00

I just have never heard someone who teaches at a community college called a professor.

Anonymous said "Is invalidation worse than attempted murder?" and the very first sentence in your next comment is "It's the same thing, isn't it?"

-Anon2

Oh god, another one who oddly tries to question my...

2008-01-21T13:11:42.928-06:00

Oh god, another one who oddly tries to question my credentials. Y'all are so weird.

Please point me to the place where I said seeking to invalidate a person or group IS THE SAME THING as murder. Then go and look up the definiton for akin. Mmm'kay, pumpkin?

So, what? Everyone who's ever held a bigoted or h...

2008-01-21T12:48:32.788-06:00

So, what? Everyone who's ever held a bigoted or hate filled opinion deserves life in prison or the death penalty?

It's terrifying to me that a philosophy "professor" doesn't understand the difference between thought and action.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that the man with the sign was attempting to disparage an entire nationality.....but that is a far cry from murder. I've known a lot of bigots in my life, not one of them has ever murdered anyone.

-Anonymous 2 (I'm not the same person who has been posting here for the last couple days)

You're doing more than assigning a label to a pers...

2008-01-21T12:04:35.460-06:00

You're doing more than assigning a label to a person or group of people when you seek to harm them. The article in question concerned hate groups; that certainly implies action, does it not?

Assigning the label of less than human is akin to ...

2008-01-21T10:52:30.840-06:00

Assigning the label of less than human is akin to murder? No, I don't think so. In one case, you are offended. In the other, you are dead. I'd rather be pissed off and alive.

Hi Meg! I googled Sally Jesse Raphael and teenage ...

2008-01-20T16:31:20.827-06:00

Hi Meg! I googled Sally Jesse Raphael and teenage pregnant skinhead in several different ways but didn't find anything. I would imagine that if those people didn't get to the place I was talking about they're either dead or in a prison of their own making or ours.

G and I were talking about SPLC just last night - ...

2008-01-20T16:13:34.607-06:00

G and I were talking about SPLC just last night - I also get the newsletter because I've been a supporter for years. We were watching a TV show about neo-Nazi groups & Morris Dees was one of the people featured in the program - the "other side," so to speak, I guess.

I was telling G that one of the saddest things I've ever seen was a girl on the Sally Jessie Rafael show when I was a teenager - she was my age, and except that she was involved in one of those groups, she looked like someone I'd have been friends with. She was pregnant; her boyfriend was involved in the same group. They were, of course, going to raise the baby in their "belief system."

I think about her every now and then & wonder what ever happened to her - did she, as you say, reach an age or a stage in her life where she could look at the things she professed to believe & decide they didn't make sense? What happened to her child? He or she would be nearly 20 now. It's weird that I think about that even though I never met this girl & just saw her for an hour on a TV show some afternoon. But I wonder if she ever came to see her beliefs the way I see them, or if she's still doing the same thing.

It's the same thing, isn't it? Assigning the label...

2008-01-20T14:24:34.951-06:00

It's the same thing, isn't it? Assigning the label of less than human is akin to murder.

Of course, the implication wasn't that this one person was the entire problem.

Hmmm, we're supposed to be upset that he tried to ...

2008-01-20T13:49:20.047-06:00

Hmmm, we're supposed to be upset that he tried to invalidate a man who stabbed him? Is invalidation worse than attempted murder?

That may be true, but the man attempted to invalid...

2008-01-19T17:08:13.137-06:00

That may be true, but the man attempted to invalidate not just a man but a nationality by his little sign.

Okay, the sign should have said "Mexican Illegal A...

2008-01-19T16:55:09.954-06:00

Okay, the sign should have said "Mexican Illegal Alien" but the facts are probably the same. If he managed to elude police, he's now across the border and will never be caught and punished.