Phrase of the Day: ad hominem
The skepbitch dictionary (in Print) defines ad hominem as:
adj. 1. describing the usage of prejudice where rationale and logic are warranted.
2. describing criticism that irrelevantly focuses on the opponent, rather than the opponent’s opinion.
etymology: Latin - against the man (or for the politically-fucking-correct: against the person)
Today…I was the victim of an ad hominem attack, popped out of a cyber potato gun…
John Hawkins of the Right Wing ‘News’ blog, has decided to be the Christian to walk into my Lion’s Den by posting an entry about the Skepbitch site in his literary master(batorial)piece Freaky Liberal Blog Names.
His point is that Conservatives, such as he, are unfairly branded “angry, homophobic, racist, misogynist people.” John doesn’t perpertuate this stereotype at all with his motto, “Bashing the French before French bashing was cool.”
Tomorrow’s Word of the Day will have to be irony…
John bitches about the Skepbitch blog, along with my mates BitchPh.D., Angry Black Bitch and The G Bitch Spot.
Do you see a pattern here? John, like a naughty, repressed school boy looking up the ‘bad’ word fuck in the dictionary, has done a blog search on bitch!
Little Johnny has been caught red handed (The Commie bastard!) and will receive a spanking on the botty until it’s red raw (The Pinkie bastard!).
Hey, John - I AM NOT A FUCKING AMERICAN! I’m not a liberal. I’m not a conservative. I don’t subscribe to your two-party system.
With popcorn in hand I spent some time reading your blog, and your tiny mind full of sterotypes and bullshit. I’m a fucking conundrum to you. I lived in ‘liberal’ Berkeley, but I hated every minute of it. I eat tofu, but I support your troops. I use profanity, but I teach language to your children. I’m an atheist, but I work at my local St Vincent de Paul (a Catholic organization) - dishing out food to your fellow Americans - more than you do to support your own country…
Moreover, this is NOT a POLITICAL blog (but I’ve had pervy right-wing minions fluttering about here all day - welcome, my pretties… don’t fly your wings too close to my flame…)
This is a blog about skepticism (and political extremists are exactly the kind of people I’m skeptical about). But you wouldn’t know this, because you didn’t read any of the entries…
I’d call you an ethnocentric, paranoid, conspiracy-theoried, racist, hypocritical, misogynistic, repressed, politically ignorant, misinformed, goose-stepping, star-spangled-bannered son-of-a-bitch…but then that would be an ad hominem attack…
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Don’t use the word ethnocentric to describe him, you will hurt his “brain”.
I’m a centrist.
LOL. Stoopid ‘murkens.
Oh no she di-int!
You know what I learned from this? If I want to get more traffic on my blog I need to name it motherfuckingcuntdickwhorebastard’s blog. *sigh* I weep for my nation.
Hmmm..you know…that has quite a ring to it!
I’m somewhat conservative, but I have nomex wings, will you marry me? I prommise I’ll poke fucktard like Hawkins with a sharp stick…
I’m so sorry…I just accepted a proposal from a nice Mexican gentleman I met. I don’t know his name…yet…
What a cockhead. And I note that no apology is forthcoming although comments on the blog recognised the error. Peh.
I love how he publishes the names of all the blogs with a single asterisk inserted, like “skepb*tch”… I’ve never understood people who do that.
They think they’re somehow ‘censoring’ the mean, nasty, dirty word.
Fucking st*pid cunts.
Ooops! Did I do it all wrong?!