Comments on: Understanding Everyday Symbolism

By: mark

mark — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:08:30 +0000

I take issue with number 3–I would feel uneasy because of the possibility that the toilet might overflow trying to swallow both the Koran and my deposit.

By: Zuska

Zuska — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:55:14 +0000

oh god. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t read it myself on PZ’s blog. It’s bad enough that he can’t see the racism in his own reaction, but the fact that his forum is so influential, that he has so many readers who suck up every word he says as (pause for irony) gospel, makes it so, so much worse.

Profoundly depressing. And yes, comment #38 is really something, isn’t it?

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:41:26 +0000

Which behavior is more open minded? Cultivating a diverse range of hatreds on one’s blog, or discriminating against certain types of hate speech for historically common yet superficial reasons?

By: yami

yami — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:29:56 +0000

And I suppose that thread supported several kinds… but racism was definitely one of them. Ick.

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:18:33 +0000

You scrolled all the way down to 38? I started feeling ill around two, and stopped in the teens.

Your choices for question number four are too limited, though. There are many different kinds of arrogance, cruelty, evil, and gross indifference in this world. Racism is only one of them.

By: Andrew Ironwood

Andrew Ironwood — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:12:54 +0000

I can’t get into all that — I get annoyed when my wife leaves one of her tabloid magazines in the bathroom with the spine bent backwards…