From: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
Subject: Miss Manners returns. (was 1950's Darryle).
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:22:21 GMT
Reply-To: danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock)
Organization: Iowa State University

In article <BxL82F.5B3@access.digex.com>, wbrown@access.digex.com (William
Brown) writes:
>     All of the name-calling launched at Darryle does nothing to reinforce
> any arguments

   I take it you were sound asleep for the last year.  Namecalling is the single
most sucessful technique known for putting across a point of view.
The Iowa state ERA just went down under a hail of name calling (feminazi,
radical lesbian, etc).  Clinton spent incredible effort countering it,
in spire of the economy handing him the election on a platter.

   Darryle is an irresponsible idiot and deserves to be told so.  Its the only
way he can tell he made a giant mistake.  He's shown himself to be unable to
find even simple facts without help and thinks the popular press is worth spit.
His self critisism is so weak he won't descern the magnitude of his mistakes
without a slap on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

> and it speaks a great deal of the mentality of those who
> resort to it.

   Yes.  We've met too many fools to suffer them gladly.

>  Chill OUT.  We don't HAVE to act mature on the net, but
> it would be nice if we DID.  And before you counter with "Darryle's
> argument wasn't mature from the beginning" think about how mature your
> response was.

   I wouldn't dream of making claims about Darryle's maturity.  His idiocy
renders maturity questions moot.
 
> Bill

WARNING: the following paragraphs contain _no_ worthwhile information.

(Rant and rave mode on)  I've met Darryle before in many incarnations.  He's
someone who want so badly, for whatever reason, to believe the government is
evil that his sense of perspective is effectively nonexistant.  Added to his
collossal ignorance, you get someone willing to atribute and act of God or
chance to the evil govenment.  He won't even try to assess probabilities or
check facts.  This sort of individual is at least as much an enemy of democracy
and reason as a genuine subversive revolutionry totalitarianist.  He will
exercise his democratic freedom of assembly, speach, and the ballot box
with maximal irresponsibility.  He will waste his intellect.

   I am extrapollating a great deal from the small amount of net.contact I've
had with Darryle, but he has all the hallmarks.  Notice the way he quoted
newspaer stories to prove his point even though those exact stories contained
the information about timing that invalidated his scenario.  Disgusting
intellectual dishonesty.  Even the evidence he chose to present was read
selectively for only those ideas he wanted AND he was to dumb to notice the
invalidating data beside the stuff he wanted.

   Another correspondant felt I was being unfair to Darryle becuase he was
"only expressing an opinion".  Certianly everyone has opinions and are entitled
to them.  If those opinions are expressed, one is simillarly entitled to have
them nuked.  Let me quote the noted philosopher, Dirty Harry:

            "Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one."


Dan
Danwell@IASTATE.EDU
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban