Comments on: They were ignoring Reason and basing all of their opinions on three thousand year old fairy-tales

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:57:56 +0000

Such really is the attitude, the attitude that the other side is defective in some way. Take things like gay marriage, for example; if you don’t support that, you must have an irrational fear (phobia), or there must be something otherwise wrong with you, because if you were of sound mind, like us, you would of course support it! You don’t like open borders? Racist! You don’t believe in climate change? Science denier! It then also creates a dilemma for them: why even debate homophobic racist science deniers? Probably Trump supporters too!

Hence the left is not really engaged in debate with the right as much as they are psycho-pathologizing them.

By: Contaminate NEET

Contaminate NEET — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:13:13 +0000

“brainwashed by their church/mosque/synagogue”
“mosque/synagogue”

Sure Scott. You were real concerned about all those backward brainwashed Muslims and Jews. I believe you.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:55:41 +0000

Scott Alexander is infuriating, because he often walks right up to the truth, and stops just short, because he knows exactly how far he can go and still not get read out of “polite society”. Maddening. Also, the “Blue Tribe” most certainly did not begin in 2004. It’s identity may have further gelled and intensified then, but anyone who lived through the Eighties can vouch for the fact that Left-wing Democrat craziness was alive and well back then. Remember when Reagan created AIDS, and was going to have gays put in concentration camps? I do…

By: Freddo

Freddo — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:52:26 +0000

He is just self aware enough to admit that both atheism and social justice are largely virtue signalling afflictions.

By: Harry Jones

Harry Jones — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 14:50:32 +0000

Not sure if this is a parody, or true absence of self awareness.