Re: Dispelling the "Man the Mighty Hunter" Myth

"ta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

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Ouch! No indication to whom you're responding?

> >   Perhaps "like other human supremacists from the Anti camp...." you
> >   can't resist trying to stick your opponents into neat little
> >   negative categories so you can (to use one of jonnie's favorite
> >   terms) marginalize them.  Try dealing with Mason as an individual,
> >   not some stereotype you think he fits.
>
> Bingo. It's the Rush Limbaugh tactic . . . create a word or phrase that
> neatly categorizes the negative elements of a particular group and keep
> using that word or phrase over and over again until it sticks. It's handy
> for people like Rush who lack the ability to counter the evidence with
> intelligent responses - whenever someone disagrees with him, they get
> dismissed as a "liberal". It's the same here, as you have pointed out.
Don't
> like a point of view? Well he must be a "leftist", or "liberal", or
> "luddite", or "vegan" or . . . you get the drift.
>
> Unfortunately, these people lack the emotional intelligence to carry on a
> civil discussion, which is why wasting time trying to be reasonable with
> them is not an intelligent use of one's time.

She neatly categorizes people with terms like "anti" and "meatarian", among
others not to mention "human supremacists", I guess she lacks "emotional
intelligence" too.

Isn't "emotional retard" a pigeonhole you have just created?