By: Ad Hominem Attacks « wakingupnow.com

Ad Hominem Attacks « wakingupnow.com — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:07:17 +0000

[...] Values Coalition exclude murder from their stats on violent crime against gays? Why would Molotov Mitchell lie so grievously about Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill? Sometimes the only answer lies in [...]

By: Martin Stennert

Martin Stennert — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:48:43 +0000

Hmm… this one might become something of a rant… or, I don’t know… longish in any case. First off, I don’t know Mitchell and what other stuff he says, so I cannot really form an idea what he is, but I sort of doubt it makes much difference. If all you want to do is just vent your anger (in front of like minded people, who you do not have to convince anyway) you might as well just go an call him a vile idiot. You don’t need the nice graphics (though it is funny.) But what is the point?
As you noted elsewhere, there is a majority of people out there who are sitting on the fence, and who just have some vague negative sterotypical ideas about gays, and can be convinced by rational argument, or even better, simply MEETING gay folks and seeing for themselves that they aren’t much different and quite likeable. They won’t read this blog either, but just by being visible (and civil), they will be won around eventually. Look at the last 50 years and you see that it is already happening, albeit slowly.
But then there is who I like to call Homophobes-from-Conviction. Do they actively lie and spread hatred? Often enough I suspect. Though I fear that more often even, their thinking is simply so influenced by their… well, their homophobia… literally their fear and abhorrence of gayness… that it leads them to see and hear only bits an pieces of reality. Those people cannot be reached by argument – because they are unable to HEAR the entire argument. They will always only hear those bits that support their existing ideology. (Now, to not be too harsh on them, I am rather convinced that we all suffer from that to some extend for some subject matters. What those blind spots are may be different for all of us, but it seems to be a rather common human fallacy. It’s just that in some cases it causes more damage than in others.)
But this is a real problem, and just saying that it is not fair that we should have to deal with their irrationality doesn’t help us. The Cheneys and Wolfowitzes of the world are easy to comprehend: They lie because they follow a rational agenda. They want war to make money, so they invent lies to make it happen. Now, that is evil. And sometimes crazy. And often still stupid. And it is hard to combat.
But the bigots… the homophobes… as long as we do not figure out why they are so afraid… what it is they cannot allow to let their minds come to terms with… they will never change. So in a way, we must treat them as, well, not crazy, because the word is too dismissive, and we cannot afford to simply dismiss them, but as suffering from a real phobia, a real illness of the psyche. An illness that must have some cause. Not the cause THEY think, most probably, but some cause nevertheless. And we will not help ourselves unless we help them – or at least future generations – overcome that illness. Through understanding.

By: Tre

Tre — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:24:47 +0000

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that he’s all three – stupid, crazy AND evil.

By: Apsalted

Apsalted — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:33:57 +0000

What I love about his little thing from above is that most hetero males would be guilty of one of those pre-existing capital crimes.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:26:26 +0000

Molotov Mitchell, a retarded christo-satanist preaching a gay genocide from a immoral occult book written by killers, adulteress,lie’s, pedos and tyrant bigot Nazi from a time of hatred, superstition and make-belive.

Why isn’t this guy incarcerated at a insane asylum for the criminally insane.

By: Joel Wheeler

Joel Wheeler — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:10:44 +0000

Classic Dunning-Kreugger?