[Platt]
Arlo has been systematically demonizing me ever since he first posted to this site. Turn about is fair play.

[Arlo]
Arlo only responds to your insipid attacks. Exactly as has been the case here. Arlo only "demonizes" your baseless and unsubstantiated accusations. Arlo only "demonizes" the atrocious "logic" by which you prop up strawmen and use them to vilify "liberals". This classic "Pee Wee Manuever", where you use outright deception and distortion and then cry boohoo when you are called on it, attempting to turn those who stand up to your insipid assertions as the instigators, is just more of the same-old talk-radio rhetoric you seem to completely rely on, in all cases and at all times.

[Platt]
Now he has turned his vitriol on Andrew and Willblake. Shameful.

[Arlo]
That's funny. Let's take a look at Andrew's very first post to me, shall we?

"Your talmudic approach to this discussion is tedious to say the least. Your obsession with naughty terms is grating. Your ad hominem unrelenting. Your logic flawed. Your style insipid. ARLO, YOU'RE FIRED!"

I asked Andrew to back up any ONE of these claims, to show where my "logic is flawed", where my "ad hominem" was "unrelenting". He, like you, never could. And as I do with you, I respond in kind to the "vitriol" that is tossed my way, except that along the way I can back up and substantiate my claims. Something that continues to escape you.

With WillBlake, I've pointed out EXACTLY where he uses very distortive rhetoric. Its not just a "claim", I back it up by putting his words right there, for anyone to read. And I've asked him several times to respond to that, as to WHY he uses such outright distortions, and, like you, he has not even attempted to answer that. Here's but one example.

"[WillBlake] What is obscene is that you have no problem with that, and in fact support it using examples of social improvement to say that it therefore must all be good."

This came several days after I REPEATEDLY denounced several uses of "PC", and said REPEATEDLY that "some is good, some is bad, some is comical". As such, his rhetoric was deliberately deceitful, it was a complete misrepresentation and distortion of what my point was, a point I said over and over, and very clearly.

Want another example? After *I* brought up the Dixie Chicks as an example of "evil PC", *I*... *I* brought it up to point out the evil use of PC... get this? *I* brought it up. WillBlake wrote, "[WillBlake] The Dixie Chicks was done in the name of PC. What do you think of your wonderful PC now." So again, I responded by pointing out yet another example of his reliance on some pretty atrocious rhetoric.

So the difference is that you, Platt, enjoy making baseless, unsubstantiated and distortive accusations, repeating them ad nauseum, and evading any and all questions that expose the inanity of your positions. Part of your MO in avoiding these points is to fall back on the moronic "evil liberal" bullshit that compromises the totality of what you have to say. Then when you are called out on this, you act like a poor little hurt baby bird. Oh boo hoo. Poor Platt the Assailed.

And yes, Arlo does grow very weary of the moronic talk-radio bunk that you year-in and year-out squalk into this forum, baseless, unsubstantiated strawmen, the same old tired "anti-intellectual" propaganda that Pirsig himself refered to as "just right-wing politics". While *I* may demonize YOU now for this deceitful tactics, YOU continue to demonize intellectuals, academics, liberals and everyone who is a smidgeon to the left of your radical right-wing position. You demonize the Academy, professors and "the media" continuously with the most baseless accusations and strawmen tactics. And you come after me in hopes of evading the fact that I've asked you repeatedly direct questions to substantiate your claims, and you simply can't answer (shall I repeat those questions now?).



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