[Dean's World] Ali Eteraz: LGF Links Approvingly To This?

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Posted by Ali Eteraz:
LGF Links Approvingly To This?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1176084294.shtml


   LGF [1]just described [2]this rant as "vote of confidence."

   The only problem is that it begins by calling some woman an a$$hole
   and ends with calling her a sh*tty person. (Note that I added the
   dollar signs and asterisk). Glad to see LGF draws validation from such
   people.

   I guess it must be stinging LGF to lose a commentator [3]after she
   discovered how nasty and brutish the site had become:

     With one relatively brief exception, my handle is always the same
     -- my actual first name, and that is what it is here, and what it
     was at LGF. I only commented there perhaps a dozen times, and
     vividly recall the day I stopped (a tale I've told in several
     venues, including privately to a conservative, Bush-supporting
     Muslim acquaintance): the usual refrain of Islam being a "cult" and
     "false" religion was going on at LGF, and I, with my undergrad
     degree in religious studies am in a position to set people straight
     on that, and began a lengthy, academic-sounding rebuttal.

     And then stopped, didn't post it, and never went back except when
     following a link. It hit me that given the mindset there what I
     proposed to write was an absolutely futile waste of my time -- like
     trying to argue against the sub-humanity of Jews with the Aryan
     Brotherhood.

   [4]Also:

     About what I said then, I'll tell you the same thing I said at
     Inactivist, QandO and other sites in the last two years: after 9/11
     almost everybody experienced fear- and rage-based thinking. But as
     time passed, I began to see that my reason had been clouded by
     those emotions; I was ahead of some, and behind many, in snapping
     out of it. My psyche is very anti-authoritarian, and especially
     post-elction-04, the rank authoritarianism of Bush and the modern
     GOP came into high relief, and I was and am having none of that,
     not to mention all the great new wars they want us to have.

     Most certainly, I began to see comments at LGF that made my skin
     crawl, and as I described above, I stopped commenting there as a
     result -- at a time when I was still a Bush supporter, btw. That's
     just the truth y'all are going to have to accept.

   By the way, this rant also claims that LGF embraces anti-terror
   "Muslims" and then cites to Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As she has repeatedly
   stated, she is not a Muslim.

   Anyway, maybe LGF is not racist. But it links approvingly to rude and
   ignorant character assasinations. I would submit that LGF is, indeed,
   a racist site. If you look here [5]they put a picture of Muslim
   Congressman Keith Ellison in Saudi Arabia as a way to discredit
   Pelosi. Yet, they ignore the fact that right behind the Muslim
   Congressman is a Jewish one. If this is not playing on the anti-Muslim
   anti-black tropes, I don't know what is.

References

   1. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25059_LGF_Stalker_Pops_Up_at_Reason_Online&only
   2. http://www.quickrob.com/weblog/?p=955
   3. http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119545.html#674759
   4. http://www.reason.com/blog/show/119545.html#674790
   5. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25038_Ellison_in_Saudi_Arabia&only