I always feel humbled by great examples of atyphia – where precision clarity is expressed in it’s most concise and simple form. Typhon Blue (also) explains in just over three and a half minutes what I have squandered untold thousands of words on.
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March 14, 2013
The Threat Narrative
Posted by franc under gender, media, misandry, populism, propaganda | Tags: amanda marcotte, beached whales, Blaghag, cfi, Ellenbeth Wachs, freethoughtblogs, genderratic, Jen mccreight, Melody Hensley, ophelia benson, professional victims, prunes, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, Stephanie Zvan, SurlyAmy, typhon blue |[4] Comments
February 21, 2013
Melody Hensley – Executive Director CFI-DC
Posted by franc under disinformation, gender, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: amanda marcotte, cfi, csi, hypocrisy, McCarthyism, Melody Hensley, Ronald A. Lindsay, slander |[29] Comments
The censor never sleeps –
I was genuinely shocked. Not that Marcotte blocked me, but that I wasn’t already blocked preemptively according to the distributed wisdom of CFI Director Melody Hensley in her efforts to sanitise the internet and create a rape-free safe space where people from all walks of life can furiously nod in agreement with each other. I had never interacted with Marcotte prior to this, and the reply box being visible and active proved too much of a temptation. (more…)
January 17, 2013
The Face Of US Skepticism – Blocked By CFI
Posted by franc under disinformation, ethics, hyperreality, Jacobins, misandry, new new atheism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, toilet slaves, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, skepchick, SkepticInk |[21] Comments
How CFI deals with criticism under CEO Ronald A. Lindsay
There was I time when I would be surprised by this. That time is long gone. (more…)
January 15, 2013
Kicking 2012’s Carcass Out The Door, And Maybe CFI’s Too
Posted by franc under censorship, disinformation, gender, hyperreality, idiocy, Jacobins, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, populism, propaganda, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: atheismplus, cfi, charlatans, confidence tricksters, dereliction of duty, Ed Clint, frauds, freethoughtblogs, Kool-aid, liars, middle class and entitled, Paul Kurtz, pudgy pink princesses, Rebecca Watson, Ron Lindsay, Russell Blackford, skepchick, SkepticInk, slanderers |[27] Comments
The Center for Ideology
Let me paint a landscape for you as 2012 ceased to be…
On November 12 2012, Russel Blackford, in a rare moment of absolute exasperation, tweeted what most folks actually feel, but restrain themselves from articulating –
I will NOT be attending any convention / conference that features Rebecca Watson as a speaker. What were the Australian Skeptics thinking? smh
— Russell Blackford (@Metamagician) November 12, 2012
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On November 10, Rebecca Watson took her very own brand of air-headed cluelessness to new heights in a talk at Skepticon 5, dragging evolutionary psychology through the mud as some kind of tool of patriarchal oppression. Whether Blackford’s tweet was a direct result of this exhibit of buffoonery or not is not known, but doesn’t seem likely given the video was not posted until November 20. If by some chance it did, it only vindicates Blackford’s outburst as Watson now consistently paints a picture of skeptics and atheists to the outside world as a bunch of ill-educated, poorly read, perpetually squabbling clowns. Remember Galileo Becky? No, that was not an excusable “slip up” – it’s basic junior high school level history/science knowledge. It reeked of the pig ignorance of a stupid girl-child that fills her vast expanses of idle time between booze ups playing video games and tweeting snark instead self-education – the latter being what many folks would assume came as a minimum responsibility for someone that feeds at the teat of the community and claims to represent it. (more…)
September 10, 2011
Why Rebecca Watson Is A Criminal
Posted by franc under ethics, fascism, gender, misandry, new new atheism, nihilism, skepticism | Tags: cfi, crime, criminality, deception, manipulation, narcissism, phil plait, psychopathy, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, SGU, sociopathy |[86] Comments
Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken.
And pretend that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools.
Now add to this strange fantasy the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs. Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that you are conscience-free is nearly effortless.
You are not held back from any of your desires by guilt or shame, and you are never confronted by others for your cold-bloodedness. The ice water in your veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of their personal experience, that they seldom even guess at your condition. (more…)
September 2, 2011
The Watson Circus – Their Kampf
Posted by franc under censorship, ethics, fascism, hyperreality, internet, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nonsense, propaganda, puritanism, shrieking hysteria, skepticism, social sites, yellow journalism | Tags: cfi, greta christina, McCarthyism, ophelia benson, PZ, PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, SGU, skeptifem, slave morality, Steve Novella, victims |[26] Comments
Roseanne Barr gets swept away by Wagner
OK, let’s talk about hatred shall we?
The Watsonistas certainly do. Relentlessly. In fact, if you take their word for it, outside of Saudi Arabia, the greatest concentration of misogynists and rape apologists on Earth can be found within the atheist and skeptic communities and a woman that attends any of their events and escapes without being sexually assaulted is in a rare minority (and probably a traitor and collaborator).
Perhaps the Watsonista that most openly, honestly and unambiguously expresses the true sentiments of all involved is Skeptifem. While others go to great lengths to disguise their hatreds as concerns, she has no such inhibitions and just lets her venom drip. A great display can be seen in an extended rant against male-friendly women, appropriately titled inside the mind of a gender traitor. It is worth reading this extract with care as there is an unusual observation to be made – (more…)
August 11, 2011
CFI/CSI/Skepchick – Grand Unified Theory Of Courtiers
Posted by franc under fascism, gender, misandry, moral panic, new new atheism, nihilism, nonsense, politics, skepticism | Tags: amanda marcotte, Center for Inquiry, cfi, csi, Paul Kurtz, phil plait, PZ Myers, Randi.org, Rebecca Watson, skepchick, socially redeeming hatred, white niggers |[47] Comments
Skepchick issue notice to Richard Dawkins
There has been an appalling amount of nonsense spewing out of the Center for Inquiry (CFI)/ Committee For Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) since some inner turmoil saw the less than amicable departure of founder Paul Kurtz.
The full story will probably never be public knowledge, but the popular reasoning seems to focus on Kurtz’s known attitudes of accommodationism as regards to religion clashing with those of successor Ronald A. Lindsay1 – who, allegedly, has definite anti-theistic attitudes and fondness for superficial irrelevancies such as the Blasphemy Challenge2.
The problem with this “official” version is that it doesn’t really have any reflection in reality. Ever since this changing of the guard, CFI / CSI have been churning out a pretty steady stream of accommodationist nonsense, far in excess of anything that preceded it. Perhaps the pinnacle of this idiocy was from CSI fellow Gollum and his now incurably pathogenic don’t be a dick sermon-on-the-mount3, but it is far from the only example. Other notable outbursts include one from Michael De Dora on the CFI site itself – (more…)
grey lining 