A couple of weeks ago, I was praising Mick Nugent for pushing Justin Vacula to get detailed on what Vacula considers to be unacceptable treatment even for people he disagrees with. Sadly, Vacula stopped responding the day I complimented Nugent on getting specific, except for plugging his new podcast:
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and telling Nugent to keep doing what he’s doing even though Vacula has stopped participating:
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Why does Vacula want to see this continue even though he doesn’t find it worth participating in? Well, I’m just guessing here, but that guess is that, like pretty much any discussion that has happened at a third-party blog in at least the last nine months, the folks from the slime pit have viewed this as an opportunity to go after the reputations of “the baboons”; i.e., a shifting group of people who are arguing for practices to make organized skepticism and secularism more generally inviting to women.
Nugent doesn’t see what he’s doing quite that way. Continue reading “A Platform for Reasonable Dialog (Updated)”