[raydan]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It might not.

Thanos has a history of making things up and then getting angry about them.

Thing is, Thanos never said that it happened, only wondered what would happen if it did.

$1:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

[Thanos]

Thanks Ray. I was having fun though watching them twist and turn to and fro over what they wanted me to say as opposed to what I actually did say. Ah, the many lows and humiliations of the strawman builders.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It might not.

Thanos has a history of making things up and then getting angry about them.

Well CPAC removed the American Atheist booth from one of their events a few years ago.

Not exactly "media banning" but along the same lines. Crickets were heard then.

[BartSimpson]

Thanos Thanos:

Ah, the many lows and humiliations of the strawman builders.

We've got a lot to learn before we're anywhere as good as you are.

[BartSimpson]

Tricks Tricks:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It might not.

Thanos has a history of making things up and then getting angry about them.

Well CPAC removed the American Atheist booth from one of their events a few years ago.

Not exactly "media banning" but along the same lines. Crickets were heard then.

It's a private event.

The atheists don't have to permit Christians at their meetings and I'd absolutely defend their right to keep them out.

[raydan]

Thanos Thanos:

Thanks Ray. I was having fun though watching them twist and turn to and fro over what they wanted me to say as opposed to what I actually did say. Ah, the many lows and humiliations of the strawman builders.

My post was for all the RCC's out there.

[Tricks]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

Tricks Tricks:

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

It might not.

Thanos has a history of making things up and then getting angry about them.

Well CPAC removed the American Atheist booth from one of their events a few years ago.

Not exactly "media banning" but along the same lines. Crickets were heard then.

It's a private event.

The atheists don't have to permit Christians at their meetings and I'd absolutely defend their right to keep them out.

And this is a listener funded private radio station. They don't have to permit anyone on their airwaves they don't want. And I'm someone who is a huge Dawkins fan.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Thanks Ray. I was having fun though watching them twist and turn to and fro over what they wanted me to say as opposed to what I actually did say. Ah, the many lows and humiliations of the strawman builders.

Hang on their hero.

Time to finally have our discussion about what a strawman actually is, because I'm honestly not sure you know. First of all here's what it's not. It's not somebody responding to a strawman argument.

OK so this is what you said:

Thanos Thanos:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station also get as upset when he, Sam Harris, or Christopher Hitchens have their works banned and removed from school libraries at the demand of permanently outraged Christian fundamentalists.

That's your issue. That's something you built. Nobody else did. You did.

The inference is there's some reason there to suspect this is not just possible, but probable. Very well, what is it? What's this suspicion built on. Now you say it's built on nothing. You say there is no actual factual reason to worry about this possibility. Fine. I'll accept that

So what you're saying then is you built an issue out of thin air to deflect attention onto. Do you know what we call that?

It's called a strawman argument and you created it. Nobody else. You.

But thanks for confessing that there doesn't seem to be anybody other than The Regressive Left up to the sort of speech stifling we saw with Dawkins. As you now admit these evil Christian fundamentalist book burners attacking Dawkins et al were nothing more than strawmen you created out of thin air. We knew that. We just had to get you to admit it. And thanks for the assist Ray.

[Thanos]

[N_Fiddledog]

[Thanos]

I have zero interest in you and your Asperger-obsessive games here anymore. As far as I'm concerned you're single-handedly wrecking what used to be fine forum site with your bullshit tactics. Go hump someone else's leg. I've had enough of you.

[N_Fiddledog]

Look, when you say this:

$1:

Thanos wrote:

Here's hoping that all those rallying around Dawkins for being banned by a left-wing radio station...

you're talking at me. I know that. You're looking for trouble with me. Don't be whining at me when you get what you're looking for.

As to somebody coming in and wrecking things for you, are you forgetting that I was here before you were?

I remember thinking he's not so bad. He's kind of funny. Then you discovered those damned progressive websites and unfortunately that was the end of you (the you that could be gotten along with.)

But I'm real easy to get along with. Don't start nothin' won't be nothin'. Try that.

[Thanos]

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[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

I have zero interest in you and your Asperger-obsessive games here anymore. As far as I'm concerned you're single-handedly wrecking what used to be fine forum site with your bullshit tactics. Go hump someone else's leg. I've had enough of you.

<3

[raydan]

Ditto that...