tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post8759143197172233920..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Your Provocative Idea For Tuesday Alternet Belongs On The Southern Poverty Law Center's Hate Group Watch List Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-84882880156562765142014-11-18T11:19:31.498-05:002014-11-18T11:19:31.498-05:00I'd wondered if that might have something to d...I'd wondered if that might have something to do with them turning on Werleman, too but haven't had the time to document it. <br /><br />Alternet is rather remarkable in how devoted to anti-religious hatred it is. When a magazine devotes so much of its resources to one fixation it's no accident and it exposes more about its real motives than they will explicitly say. I always wonder if some unnamed funding source has something to do with it. As I've noted, Corliss Lamont was behind a lot of the "Humanist" "skeptic" junk which was a direct precursor of the new atheism, many of the same people being involved, many of the same groupings of people. <br /><br />I've come to the conclusion that it's a hate group as devoted to spreading hate of its obsession as much as the others on the SPLC's list. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-32716002221650696392014-11-18T10:55:37.132-05:002014-11-18T10:55:37.132-05:00I have all but decided hate is all the internet re...I have all but decided hate is all the internet really does.<br /><br />My daughter was telling me about the scientist on the comet probe who showed up for the press conference in a shirt designed by a friend, a woman: because it displayed half-dressed women in the print, he's been excoriated to the point of tears for daring to wear it at the conference, and so offend someone on the internet.<br /><br />It's the New Puritanism, with the World Wide Web behind it. If something someone does offends me, I must rally my troops and destroy that person. Or at least scream about them, loud and long. After all, it's not MY fault I'm offended.<br /><br />And so Marcotte and Tarico (Werleman seems to have turned in his atheist shtick lately; maybe that's why he's accused of plagiarism: it gets rid of him) find things to hate, the better to rile up their audience and get more clicks. Or attention. Or something.<br /><br />Negativity feeding negativity, and the only interest is: who are we bashing now? It's ironic Tarico accuses religion of creating groups with distinctive boundaries (as if human beings didn't do that on a regular basis anyway: it's sociology 101), and then she creates as tight a group around her hate-mongering as she can manage.<br /><br />Conversation is not possible. Discussion is not possible. All the web seems to be good for is screaming and yelling at some figure somewhere (on Salon, if it isn't "Christians," it's Woody Allen or, now, Bill Cosby. Gotta find a celebrity past his prime to call a sex criminal, because it generates the clicks. When that gets old, find another atheist....),<br /><br />If this is the brave new world the Internet promises, I'd rather go back to the boob tube. At least we were passive when we just stared at that; and it didn't keep us from getting involved in the Civil Rights movement, or the anti-war movement.<br /><br /><br />More and more I think the intertoobs are just getting us involved in the virtual bowel movement....Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com