Porkin’ Across America

I think one guy whose life would made an interesting story is Rollen Stewart, better known as the rainbow wig John 3:16 guy.

I just finished watching that show.

Drop the “face.” Just “Book.” It’s cleaner.

The last two books were released in 1984 and 1985.

Funny you should say it’s obvious because the idea that they were Native Americans never occurred to me until I read someone else made that analogy years after I watched it.

And why is that?

Has Whedon ever said they were supposed to be Native Americans?

So what if some nutjobs love Firefly? There are lots of people who love works of entertainment that specifically preach against their own ideology.

I haven’t seen anything to indicate he supports the actual Confederacy.

I sort of agree with your last point, in that I think that a lot of time people’s irrational beliefs come from a desire to feel like a freethinking person. One mistake I think people make sometimes is associating stupidity with believing whatever you’re told, when often stupidity comes from doing the opposite; just…

So obvious you can’t actually pick out anything in it that’s actually insulting(for one thing, even if an equivalence is false that doesn’t make it insulting). You know, like I just did with you. If we can just say something’s obvious without showing how, maybe I should start doing that. It’s obvious you’re a…

I don’t need to be told that something’s an insult. I could tell words like “racist” and “coward” are meant to be insulting because of their definitions. Now you try telling me what’s insulting about my original comment by using word/phrase definitions and not by saying it’s “obvious”, which I think has about as much…

Even in the mid-’90s people made jokes that the internet was basically for looking at porn and chatting with morons.

There’s an actor named Ted Atherton who looks related to William but isn’t.

Google says the definition of “insult” as a verb is “speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse.” Merely criticizing someone’s logic isn’t disrespectful, scornful, or abusive. When I criticized the logic of some of the protesters I wasn’t calling them stupid or hysterical or anything that would actually be…

You seem to think what I said is code for something, so I’d like to know what’s code for what I actually said so I can say that and then you’ll believe I meant what I actually said.

I wonder how I could’ve made the point I made in my original comment in a way you wouldn’t consider insulting.

I didn’t mean that entertainment has no effect, just that it doesn’t have so much effect that we need to be extra careful not to let it “normalize” things.

Funny, when someone accuses me of using faulty logic I don’t take that as an insult to my reasoning ability unless they literally say so. People with good reasoning ability come to incorrect conclusions all the time.