tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post3347341752068773433..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Safe SchoolsZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-41709358947219208542016-05-03T23:02:34.070+10:002016-05-03T23:02:34.070+10:00Sadly, I've encountered this sort of attitude ...Sadly, I've encountered this sort of attitude in quite a few places online - one of the most notorious was the blog of some hardcore Catholic (one of those so extreme they apparently believe the Enlightenment was a terrible, terrible mistake) who once wrote a piece praising bullying as an invaluable means of "enforcing social norms", and advocating that LGBT folk in particular be subjected to it (indeed, he went so far as to say that violence against such individuals was not only justified, but positively laudable). So shocked was I by his drivellings on the subject that I promptly submitted them to the site "Fundies Say the Darndest Things", where they were not only reproduced, but also ended up on the list of the Top 100 most WTF?! submissions the site had ever received! (Funnily enough, the writer of the original piece ended up copping quite a bit of flak over it, and taking it down as a consequence, whining after he'd done so that all his critics had been, you guessed it, bullying him!)<br /><br />I also remember this Australian conservative blogger I used to follow until the day I read him lament that men who dressed "effeminately" could now venture out in public without expecting to be automatically beaten to a bloody pulp by their peers. I never had too much time for him after that... (As it happens, while he used to come across as a halfway-reasonable individual, he appears to have since degenerated into total, gibbering crankdom, parroting every Far Right conspiracy theory, and singing the praises of a reactionary movement called "The Dark Enlightenment", which is just as ridiculous as it sounds! What's really scary about him is that he's apparently a GP in meatspace! I wonder how his patients would feel if they found out just what contempt he must secretly hold many of them in?)Zosimus the Heathennoreply@blogger.com