The One-Dimensional Man Is Alive and Well

The following is a pile-up of comments from the "Richard Dawkins proving Bill O'Reilly's stupidity" video on YouTube which involved an exchange I had with a social-Darwinist who hates Darwin, also known as a fine specimen.

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Test Group:

• "Liberals are the Fools...look at the word Homophobic....homo..derived from homo sapien...meaning man or man kind...and phobic meaning irrational fear of....together liberals of pavlov dog syndrome define it as fear of homosexuality....by all rights it would mean fear of man....so it may have meaning to a lesbian!...off subject yes but true!"

Control Group:

• "Actually "homo" means "man" in "homo sapiens," which means "thinking man," while "homo" in "homosexual," relates to the scientific term "homogeneous," which means "invariance," and relates to the fact that there is no sexual variance between partners. Stay in school."

TG:

• "Ok Gene...now that was explained...explain this...why is a non bia's term not used like homosexual? Why is street slang terms like "gay" used, which seems to promote homosexuality. And why can't people accept the street slang term "fag" which rejects homosexuality...Does a society have to accept homosexuality....why not bestiality or incestual sex between to adults...why stop at homosexuality...why not have a total cesspool society...maybe crap isn't a turn on to them..and adult incestual sex is"

CG:

• "The connotations of words like "gay" and "fag" are determined by how people use them. No one has absolute control over them. As far as the difference between homosexuals and other sexual minorities go, it is mostly an issue of marriage. People always have and always will do whatever they choose. The only reason homosexuality has become such an issue is because they have been asking for marital recognition form the government, which has galvanized conservatives to ostracize them further."

TG:

• "Gene in the homosexual city of San Francisco...capital of liberalism ..totalitarians of guns...98 murders took place there...and 51 murders so far this year. Do you think the mayor Gavin Newsom is so engrossed with homosexuals aberrant behaviors he is neglecting is duty as Mayor. And do you think it is safer to be in Iraq then in the atheist, Aids infested, murderous city of San Francisco?"

• "98 in 2007"

CG:

• "No. Have you been there?"

TG:

• "Yes I have been there...San Francisco is a City stuck in what the pschological community would call the anal stage. Where adult liberals are stuck playing and experimenting with DOO DOO!.."

CG:

• "Well the reason I ask is because most of San Francisco's violent crime is perpetrated by gang members and related to drugs, which are the result of racial hatred and ignorant social policies. So I find it rather ironic you blame the gays."

TG:

• "Wow Gene you are really a homo militant...easy on the skin pipe....so what is the racial hated..explain..and what is the ignorant social policies...the poor doesn't get enough hand out...welfare..childcare..free medical..free education...or is it the acceptance of social pollution in SF...the genetic footprints of aberrant behaviors..."

CG:

• "As I said, stay in school."

It is entirely likely that I could be dragged into this until Terence McKenna reincarnates as the Tenth Avatar of Vishnu but I will resist in the interest of sanity.