Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Par 2, screen cap dump One thing Greta Christina did in criticizing DJ Grothe was refer back to a previous post she had written, Why “Yes, But” Is the Wrong Response to Misogyny. When I saw this post, I thought it was pretty obviously problematic, for reasons that don’t [...]
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DJ Grothe is right, part 3: “Yes, but sometimes it’s appropriate to say, ‘yes but’”
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 13, 2012
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DJ Grothe is right, part 2: screen cap dump
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 11, 2012
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Previously: Part 1, what DJ said Part of the problem with the DJ/Greta dustup is that it was spawned by something that happened on Greta’s Facebook page. Facebook does not make it easy to permalink to old threads, so basically nobody has the context for this unless you’re both (1) friends with Greta on Facebook [...]
DJ Grothe is right, part 1: what DJ said
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 9, 2012
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I’ve got some stuff to get off my chest. It’s related to things I’ve written here and here, but includes a lot of other stuff as well. It’s stuff I’ve avoided writing about because I feel like I have better things to do, but now it’s escalated to Greta Christina accusing DJ Grothe of sexism [...]
It’s over, the atheists won
Posted by Chris Hallquist on September 2, 2011
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Robin Hanson thinks religion is here to stay. Why?: Systems often get locked into standards. For example, computer systems get locked into programming language and operating system standards. When people notice that existing standards have unsatisfactory features, they often try to create and promote alternate standards. Such attempts usually fail, however, due to the large [...]
Let nothing be held hostage to dogma
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 30, 2010
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It’s tempting to see the accommodationist vs.Gnu atheist debate as a debate about two questions. One is about of principles: if science and religion do conflict, would we have to tell the truth about that? The other is about priorities: is it more important to get evolution taught in public schools, or more important to [...]