The latest legislative moves to decriminalise abortion in an Australian state have sent the conservatives of Catallaxy over the edge, with one long time participant repeating this often:
Show me how it is irony? IT has been fiercely against abortion forever. (I said to him years ago, if he was at a dinner party and a woman volunteered there that she had an abortion, would he really treat her the same as if she had just admitted to murdering a husband? His answer was that he would leap across the table and gouge her eyes out with a spoon. In other words - he genuinely believes it is every bit as bad as murder of an adult.)
I reckon that you chose to label comments as "not serious" simply when it suits you - to put a veneer over why you won't remove it.
I'd be very surprised if IT had made a single serious comment at the Cat ever.
This one is quite clever - some abortionists (not all) speak of abortion as simply clearing away clumps of cells. Now I'm not opposed to abortion but I'd never support that sort of amoral and unethical argument. IT is simply reversing the argument upon those abortionists themselves. As you quite rightly point out, it is ugly. It looks ugly. Yet nobody calls them out on it.
Whether you're naive, stupid, or faking one or the other I can never tell, Sinclair - but one way or another you excuse and host conservatism at its ugliest and dumbest.
Of course I see the reference to pro-choice rhetoric in the second sentence. There is nonetheless no reason to believe he does not believe the sentiment in the first sentence.
Well I am against abortion
ReplyDeleteYou don't recognise irony and the calling out of hypocrisy when you see it?
ReplyDeleteShow me how it is irony? IT has been fiercely against abortion forever. (I said to him years ago, if he was at a dinner party and a woman volunteered there that she had an abortion, would he really treat her the same as if she had just admitted to murdering a husband? His answer was that he would leap across the table and gouge her eyes out with a spoon. In other words - he genuinely believes it is every bit as bad as murder of an adult.)
ReplyDeleteI reckon that you chose to label comments as "not serious" simply when it suits you - to put a veneer over why you won't remove it.
I'd be very surprised if IT had made a single serious comment at the Cat ever.
ReplyDeleteThis one is quite clever - some abortionists (not all) speak of abortion as simply clearing away clumps of cells. Now I'm not opposed to abortion but I'd never support that sort of amoral and unethical argument. IT is simply reversing the argument upon those abortionists themselves. As you quite rightly point out, it is ugly. It looks ugly. Yet nobody calls them out on it.
Uhuh.
ReplyDeleteWhether you're naive, stupid, or faking one or the other I can never tell, Sinclair - but one way or another you excuse and host conservatism at its ugliest and dumbest.
He’s reversing the clump of cells argument, you moron.
ReplyDeleteOf course I see the reference to pro-choice rhetoric in the second sentence. There is nonetheless no reason to believe he does not believe the sentiment in the first sentence.
ReplyDeleteWhy not go on the site and ask him directly?
Yes, go and ask him, you mind reader you.
ReplyDeleteWill you stop moderating the site, FFS. Everyone knows bird is off his rocker. Ignore it.
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