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> the proximate reason is that "not loons" conspiracy theorists told him we were holding Evil League of Evil meetings there. The post you replied to made it pr
by PavlovsCat 13y ago
> the proximate reason is that "not loons" conspiracy theorists told him we were holding Evil League of Evil meetings there.
The post you replied to made it pretty clear that those are to be considered loons. Conflating legitimate concerns and crazyness is exactly what needs to stop.
- vacri 13y agoYou couldn't ask for a more textbook version of No True Scotsman. "Don't stigmatise conspiracy theorists, because the ones who attack places on the theory that there's a conspiracy going on... they aren't really conspiracy theorists!"
- PavlovsCat 13y agoHuh. I didn't say they're not conspiracy theorists, did I? That's putting words in my mouth I never said, in other words a strawman. Labeling anyone and everyone as "conspiracy theorist" because they are talking about a conspiracy doesn't make them all the same, that makes as much sense as treating all humans like serial killers because Charles Manson was a human, too. Is realizing how silly that is a No True Scotsman, too? Please. To use big words, too, this is orders of magnitude below the standard of HN. When drug dealers, who conspired to deal drugs, are busted, does that make the police "conspiracy theorists"? Why not, since they technically are? Because more often than not, that label is used to lump legitimate concerns together with kooky ones.