16 thoughts on “Gotta love Google”

  2. Just by the Tacitus website. Seems he added bigot to his lengthy list personal failings –
    “I actually do feel rather sorry for individual Palestinians, particularly after seeing the contrast between east and west Jerusalem, but my sorrow is the sorrow one feels for one’s unemployed, shiftless cousin: ultimately, it’s their own fault.” Tacitus
    Sounds like the words of a bigot to me. All Palestinians are like your unemployed, shiftless cousin and should be treated accordingly.

  3. James,
    I know Tac to be a stand-up guy with perhaps a blind spot or two when it comes to Islam (although I believe I see why you’re objecting so strongly to this statement), but don’t you think you should comment on his site about this?
    He’ll likely ask you to read the “posting rules” if you call him a “bigot” though, and I think you’d do better to explain why that statement strikes you as bigotted rather than to label him, per se.

  5. I knew I had read Tac had done that, Jesurgislac. Didn’t remember you were the one he had banned though. Maybe you could appeal.
    Lord knows I’ve gone many rounds with Tacitus, on what I consider his anti-Islamic statements, but I don’t take kindly to being called names myself, however.
    Personally, I think it’s best to explain an objection than to use a label. Keeps the ad hominem to a minimum.

  6. uhmm Edward,
    You don’t actually think that’s funny (the google thing) do you? Would you find it amusing if I did a post wondering if Howard Dean had fallen off the wagon when he had his Pirate Moment?

  7. I’d been explaining objections to Tacitus’s anti-Islamic remarks for about as long as I’d been reading Tacitus. (Including a couple of very strange arguments where Tacitus was trying to claim that Muslims are idol-worshippers.) Throughout it all, Tacitus held rigidly to his anti-Islamic bigotry – one argument over, you could be certain the next one would be up sometime soon.
    At some point I just decided to give up trying to change his mind, and at least openly acknowledge that Tacitus, where Muslims are concerned, is not a member of the reasonable right-wing, but an anti-Islamic bigot speaking from his bigotry. If you can’t defeat evil, at least name it by its name.

  9. Would you find it amusing if I did a post wondering if Howard Dean had fallen off the wagon when he had his Pirate Moment?
    Mac,
    I lost two Grandparents to alcoholism. I don’t find it a “funny” disease, but come on…the fact that the lunatic site is the first result on the search, and the fact that Bush was a bit incoherent does add up to humor.
    “Was he drunk” need not refer to his previous addiction in this context though…Come on, lighten up. It’s funny.

  11. By the way, Mac, if you re-read the instructions you’ll note I never said to click through and read the article…

  13. “Was he drunk” need not refer to his previous addiction in this context though…
    Except that they specifically do refer to the previous addiction.
    Come on, lighten up.
    Are youze talk’n to me? You know…like…me?
    It’s funny.
    I guess it’s funny that it has reached the top of google, in a “gee what a strange world” sort of way, but the site in question isn’t funny.

  14. but the site in question isn’t funny
    And I repeat: “I never said to click through and read the article…”
    I thought the “search-engine editorial” intro bit would have covered me here… 🙂

  15. Hey, I called him a bigot this morning.
    Mmm… well, I wouldn’t say Tacitus is bigoted about Bush. Indeed, he seemed to be reasonably aware of Bush’s faults, back when I was reading him.
    So maybe Tacitus is cool with you calling him a bigot on a topic he’s demonstrably not bigoted about? 😉

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