What I love about this exchange is how fully it recapitulates so many of my experiences talking to A-plussers.
Me: I am skeptical about some of your claims.
Them: What, you doubt that [given form of bigotry] is real?
Me: No, just this one hyperbolic claim that you made, right here.
Them: BLOCKED.
Wow, just wow. This right here is why some skeptics doubt whether plussers are a plus to our movement.
3 comments:
I think he was just being hyperbolic. If his point was that there is islamophobia in the atheist community, he's dead on. *cough*samharris*cough*.
An honest skeptic would own up to being hyperbolic.
My objection is the absurdity of thinking there's any kind of equivalence between thinking Muslims should be shot, and thinking it's OK to speak to women in elevators.
Post a Comment