EAllusion wrote:Droopy's posts come across as not the brightest person trying very, very hard to sound smart Wade. I wish someone he trusted, perhaps DCP, explained to him what a terrible writer he is and handed him a copy of elements of style. Droopy is the
Dunning-Kruger effect reified and animated to life.
Its odd, because the post BA level French philosophy class I took in 2008 required a great deal of writing, including a fairly large thesis paper for the final, which my philosophic teacher - a committed radical leftist and scholar of postmodern thought - saw fit to give As to at every possible opportunity.
Others have also mentioned to me over time, regarding my talks (given in Church), things said in conversation (since I was very young, I might add), and writing, here and in other venues, that they appreciate the intellectual scope, philosophical depth, sophistication, and creativity of my thought and articulation of those thoughts.
I'm not bragging or strutting here, but as my intelligence, education, intellect are, and have been constantly brought into question here (as have most others who, interestingly, agree with me in many areas) just making clear that what
you think of my thoughts or writing is, as one might conclude at first glance, little more than an artifact of your own intellectual temperament and internal psychological dynamics.
I'm quite certain that, in both cases, we differ to a substantial degree.
Will habitually tries to belittle women by using the most sexist insults and reducing their worth into their physical attractiveness (to him). He's done this in mere response to criticism of his ideas. It's highly misogynist.
What Will has or has not done is both open to question as well as interpretations of its seriousness. The misogynist label is a classic leftist (in this case feminist) moral denunciation who's primary usefulness, as with all such pc terms of intellectual warfare, is to stop all debate and poison the well against so much as listening to a defense by the one targeted for public shame.
Wade has well called this a "lynch mob" mentality, as this is the primary purpose of such tendentious moral grandstanding. As I've already pointed out, again and again, it would be one thing is some of the things Will has said, now and then over time, were opposed in a standard way by a consensus here. The reality is, however, that many posters here have engaged in verbal pornography equal to and
far in excess of anything Will has ever done, with a wink and a nod, if not gleeful participation, especially if aimed at prominent apologists or Church authorities.
You cannot, in other words, possible excoriate Will here without excoriating the general demeanor of virtually this entire board, with few exceptions.
