I agree with this blogger that Liza Long could have kept her family completely pseudonymous in her essay to no loss of effect. If nothing else, the stress caused by the destruction of his privacy may actually increase his chances of someday acting out murderously ( Read more... )

Ing, speaking of a commenter who has been spouting racist, genocidal bullshit against Muslims for months but is still there (bold is my emphasis):As an aside I have to address. I almost wrote “of being a dick” and went back and changed that. Do you realize that if I had slipped and not caught that *I* would be violating rules and get a deserved ( Read more... )

Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not wearing the veil in public.

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Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter ( Read more... )

So the new book by Chris Stedman, Harvard Humanist "chaplain" and all-around self-righteous little twit, has been excerpted on Salon.

Enough people have already written about Stedman's double standards of behavior for theists and atheists; about his narcissistic humblebragging, passive-aggressiveness, and two-facedness; and especially how full of ( Read more... )

https://twitter.com/pervocracy/status/256327244052578304
https://twitter.com/TheRealKeori/status/256373329454317568


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Atheism Plus devotes a thread to finding alternatives to the term "crackpot." Which is OMG ABLEIST.

Setar:Err, while it may not be mental illness necessarily, "kook" raises my hackles a bit because it is used to stigmatize introverts/recluses.
As a very introverted person who tends to isolate, I call bullshit.

And then there's (oh, NO!) some moron ( Read more... )

From f_fa: I was once absolutely infuriated by a post in which an LJ-er wrote about her brother and his wife had a baby who at less than a year had been diagnosed with severe developmental and physical disabilities that would have a major impact on her life. The brother had expressed his sorry that his daughter “would not have a normal life”, that ( Read more... )

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So sayeth Daniel Fincke, overrated, tedious, verbose, pinched-mouthed, intellectually masturbatory douchenozzle philosopher on FreeThoughtBlogs, in the comments to this post of his, informing his commenters that insults are just as bad as gendered or racial slurs.

When a trans woman (Natalie Reed) angrily tells him, in several places, that this is ( Read more... )

More comments from that XOJane thread...


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