RE: Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011)
December 21, 2011 at 3:41 am
(This post was last modified: December 21, 2011 at 3:42 am by ElDinero.)
(December 20, 2011 at 8:20 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: Oh wow, Eld. Just wow. Blow everything I say out of freakin' proportion, straw man it up.
That response was beneath you.
For one, my prince, no one ever goddamn said you couldn't disagree with what he wrote. I was only reminding a few people of what he intended this thread to be. If you don't like it, don't post in it. If you have a problem with what he said, make a new thread. I do believe regular members have that power. But if someone requests that a thread take a certain tone or direction, we can and have directed members to move their related discussions elsewhere.
Or is it because I politely asked on a Christian's thread?
So in what sense was I strawmanning you? You're saying to make a new thread if we want to disagree with what has been put (as I said in my last post - not a straw man at all), which is stupid. So can I make that thread and call it 'Disagreeing with Ryft's stupid Hitchens thing' and demand that nobody disagree with that point of view in my thread, and if they wish to dispute what I've written, tell them to make ANOTHER new thread? It is absolutely absurd.
It's pretty ridiculous that you're even saying, on a discussion forum, 'if you don't like it, don't post in it'. Surely this defeats the entire purpose of the place?
Speaking of a straw man, it's got literally nothing to do with it being a Christian that posted it (except in the sense that an atheist would never have posted this). I've called out my fair share of atheists on various issues here, so if you're trying to paint me as someone who indiscriminately hunts down theists for the sake of it, you're wrong.
