Comments on: Expelling Creationism from…Conservatism? http://blog.darwincentral.org/2008/04/25/expelling-creationism-fromconservatism/ Coniuratio compatiens Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:08:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: individual http://blog.darwincentral.org/2008/04/25/expelling-creationism-fromconservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-21392 individual Sun, 11 May 2008 17:49:30 +0000 http://blog.darwincentral.org/?p=212#comment-21392 RWA: Thanks for editing the post. Because of one or two commenters many years ago (who have been long ago banned), LGF got smeared by the left with this hard-to-shake reputation of being the "nuke everything" site, which is as far from the truth as can be. 99% of the commenters (including the proprietor) don't think that way, and it is generally suspected that those few people who do on rare occasion suggest nuking something are themselves "moby"s simply trying to discredit LGF. The vast majority of LGF commenters also accept evolution and reject creationism (to the extent that they care about the topic at all). And that includes Charles Johnson. Yes, there is a vocal minority of creationists who pop up here and there, but people generally aren't banned or deleted from LGF for expressing differing opinions -- only when they get abusive or advocate violence. You can imagine the task that presents itself to Charles Johnson every single day, during which he has to somehow monitor several hundred comments being made every hour -- an impossible job. He tries to keep on top of it but with a blog that popular, sometimes unpleasant comments stick around for a hour or two before they can be deleted. But that's generally not the tenor of the site. RWA: Thanks for editing the post. Because of one or two commenters many years ago (who have been long ago banned), LGF got smeared by the left with this hard-to-shake reputation of being the “nuke everything” site, which is as far from the truth as can be. 99% of the commenters (including the proprietor) don’t think that way, and it is generally suspected that those few people who do on rare occasion suggest nuking something are themselves “moby”s simply trying to discredit LGF. The vast majority of LGF commenters also accept evolution and reject creationism (to the extent that they care about the topic at all). And that includes Charles Johnson. Yes, there is a vocal minority of creationists who pop up here and there, but people generally aren’t banned or deleted from LGF for expressing differing opinions — only when they get abusive or advocate violence. You can imagine the task that presents itself to Charles Johnson every single day, during which he has to somehow monitor several hundred comments being made every hour — an impossible job. He tries to keep on top of it but with a blog that popular, sometimes unpleasant comments stick around for a hour or two before they can be deleted. But that’s generally not the tenor of the site.

]]> By: RWA http://blog.darwincentral.org/2008/04/25/expelling-creationism-fromconservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-21386 RWA Sun, 11 May 2008 01:05:54 +0000 http://blog.darwincentral.org/?p=212#comment-21386 individual: lgf and me are on the same wavelength on the majority of issues, and Charles Johnson is an excellent fact-finder, but too many of the respondents go way, way too far, and the rapid pace and busy trafficing of the site means that a lot of the more extreme reader responses wind up sticking around for far longer than intended. Still, I share your hopes for a new secular right becoming more vocal, and in the spirit of civility and trucedom, I've edited the post to remove some my more vitriolic comments; I made a mistake and I thank you for pointing it out. I'll try to reign in the sarcasm, or at least be gentler in the future. Thank you for your input. individual: lgf and me are on the same wavelength on the majority of issues, and Charles Johnson is an excellent fact-finder, but too many of the respondents go way, way too far, and the rapid pace and busy trafficing of the site means that a lot of the more extreme reader responses wind up sticking around for far longer than intended. Still, I share your hopes for a new secular right becoming more vocal, and in the spirit of civility and trucedom, I’ve edited the post to remove some my more vitriolic comments; I made a mistake and I thank you for pointing it out. I’ll try to reign in the sarcasm, or at least be gentler in the future. Thank you for your input.

]]> By: individual http://blog.darwincentral.org/2008/04/25/expelling-creationism-fromconservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-21381 individual Fri, 09 May 2008 07:13:10 +0000 http://blog.darwincentral.org/?p=212#comment-21381 It's take for you to wake up. If you believe the slander that Little Green Footballs is composed of "loony nuke-Mecca types" then you have another thing coming. LGF is among the strongest defenders of Darwinism on the Web today -- along with many other "neo-con" sites whose nature you apparently misapprehend in the extreme. And any troll on LGF who advocates nuking anything, even once, is immediately banned. Once the neo-conservative movement publicly breaks any connection with the creationists (and it will happen soon), millions of Americans will defect from the neo-Marxism of the Democratic Party to the secular pro-freedom patriotism of the "new right" or whatever this as-yet unnamed movement/orientation will be called. Better start looking into what places like LGF really believe in and stand for, because soon enough you will be on their team. You mind find yourself pleasantly amazed. It’s take for you to wake up. If you believe the slander that Little Green Footballs is composed of “loony nuke-Mecca types” then you have another thing coming. LGF is among the strongest defenders of Darwinism on the Web today — along with many other “neo-con” sites whose nature you apparently misapprehend in the extreme. And any troll on LGF who advocates nuking anything, even once, is immediately banned. Once the neo-conservative movement publicly breaks any connection with the creationists (and it will happen soon), millions of Americans will defect from the neo-Marxism of the Democratic Party to the secular pro-freedom patriotism of the “new right” or whatever this as-yet unnamed movement/orientation will be called.

Better start looking into what places like LGF really believe in and stand for, because soon enough you will be on their team. You mind find yourself pleasantly amazed.

]]> By: Darwin Central » Blog Archive » “Stand up for your civilization, man!” http://blog.darwincentral.org/2008/04/25/expelling-creationism-fromconservatism/comment-page-1/#comment-21264 Darwin Central » Blog Archive » “Stand up for your civilization, man!” Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:26:08 +0000 http://blog.darwincentral.org/?p=212#comment-21264 [...] by National Review’s resident evolution aficiondo John Derbyshire, and while NR itself may have disappointed me, the Derb sure didn’t. He has a great takedown in today’s National Review Online, [...] [...] by National Review’s resident evolution aficiondo John Derbyshire, and while NR itself may have disappointed me, the Derb sure didn’t. He has a great takedown in today’s National Review Online, [...]

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