tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post2776749259474513604..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Sanity Strikes Back?: The "Intellectual Dark Web"Winston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-4574519525309445702018-05-10T09:25:38.641-04:002018-05-10T09:25:38.641-04:00DA, you're just not making any sense, dude. No...DA, you're just not making any sense, dude. None of this is at all relevant in any way I can see.<br /><br />These just all seem like weird ad hominems to me...except for the Williamson bit, which is irrelevant on other grounds.<br /><br />What am I missing?Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-30582800754126694672018-05-10T09:10:32.919-04:002018-05-10T09:10:32.919-04:00Why, just look at what happened to Kevin Williamso...Why, just look at what happened to Kevin Williamson: he was hired by The Atlantic, but the moment they found out he held a Dangerous opinion (in this case, the opinion that women who get abortions should be hanged and that little black boys can be appropriately described as “primates”), he was fired. Why are mainstream institutions punishing heterodox thinking?<br /><br />First, even from the Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-86763402198366912932018-05-10T08:09:42.529-04:002018-05-10T08:09:42.529-04:00Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro appeared to def...Conservative columnist Ben Shapiro appeared to defend Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday, saying that while he disagreed with her tweet going after Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg it wasn't "remotely close" to criticism that Hogg himself has issued.<br /><br />Shapiro argued in a series of tweets that Parkland students such as Hogg who engage in political discourse Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-13820745890612786902018-05-10T06:15:01.766-04:002018-05-10T06:15:01.766-04:00Your pulling stuff out of your ass again, DA. Ther...Your pulling stuff out of your ass again, DA. There's no mention of Kevin Williamson in any of this. I barely even know who that guy is. <br /><br />And *that's* what you've got on Shapiro?<br /><br />This is pretty thin gruel even by your standards, DA.Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-20878417253721692322018-05-09T21:53:28.928-04:002018-05-09T21:53:28.928-04:00The guy who lost his position at the Atlantic for ...The guy who lost his position at the Atlantic for his opinion that women should be hanged for having had an abortion. Of course Ben Shapiro, having started opining at an early age, was against the Parkland students daring to have an opinion on gun control.<br /><br />You know how to pick ‘em, Winston. A budding Edmund Burke or Russel Kirk is sure to come from this movement one of these days.<brDark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-47279136704068873642018-05-09T10:31:45.345-04:002018-05-09T10:31:45.345-04:00Oh, also: 'Intellectual' in this context c...Oh, also: 'Intellectual' in this context clearly means something more like "a dark web of an intellectual kind," rather than "a dark web of intellectuals."Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-54677280882188235532018-05-09T10:30:14.764-04:002018-05-09T10:30:14.764-04:00Well, what *I* said was "intellectual celebri...Well, what *I* said was "intellectual celebrities," FWIW. Who's Williamson?<br /><br />Also: look, basically all these people are pretty damn smart--even Harris. Many or most are former academicians. Unless I'm mad, I don't sneer at people for not being academicians, or not being at good schools, or having Ivy League pedigrees, or any of that stuff. (Hell, I'm in no *Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-81122178401787033162018-05-09T09:57:01.451-04:002018-05-09T09:57:01.451-04:00It's also a terribly constructed article. (Wid...It's also a terribly constructed article. (Widely respected professor at Evergreen State? As if! That is an oxymoron.)Pete Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14675790226494153847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-73813551836499030142018-05-09T08:42:37.890-04:002018-05-09T08:42:37.890-04:00Williamson, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson are i...Williamson, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson are intellectuals?<br /><br />“You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.”Dark Avengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02220642215040873632noreply@blogger.com