I’m a big believer in fighting speech with more speech. That’s why it’s so easy for me to explain to people why I don’t like people like PZ Myers and the thought-police at Freethoughtblogs:
There is a facebook page called The Patriot Nation, and it’s exactly what you’d expect: people raging against an America that isn’t white. And it is on facebook, so hell no, it’s never going to get taken down, even when it lies.
and
I just got a comment on twitter about this post:
@Miserere22: @pzmyers hopefully she gets raped. no offense.
Hopefully their account gets reported by people all over the world. No offense.
and
This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly.
Status: Heavily Moderated
I found all this within the first 4 pages of his blog.
Filed under: Blogging | Tagged: Censorship, pz myers |
“This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. Status: Heavily Moderated”
In fairness, he also has the “Thunderdome” arena, in which you can say (reportedly) anything.
Yeah, PZ can be tiresome at times. But he’s another perspective.
A perspective that outlaws any differing perspective. Actually, I think we have enough of those already.