New York Times hires unapologetic racist writer

[SlackerInc]

@Evil_Economist

You’re still talking about me, huh?

Rewriting history again, eh? I know you’re bad at math, but maybe you can try to comprehend this one:

[number of times you come at me] > [number of times I sigh and wearily respond]

MUCH greater. Remember how you kept bouncing around like you were on crack, insisting I respond to you and back up my claim that you are innumerate? I tried to avoid it, saying you needed to find someone else to vouch for you actually being right, or I didn’t want to bother with you after all your ridiculousness in the past (“arrogant, verbose and wrong”). Post 942 was my finally giving in to all your taunts and spelling out how badly you shit the bed, in meticulous detail. So now you’re trying to turn it around and call me the obsessive one? Pfffffft.

@Evil_Economist

Anyway, my post 944 detailed the multiple lies you made in your post 942, so you can stop saying “not a single person has demonstrated any error …” now, because I did exactly that.

Hah, nope. It’s…interesting how when you mentioned other post numbers, you included links. Not with those, though! I’ll link to them so anyone with a brain they didn’t get off the Brains R Us clearance rack can see what nonsense you’re peddling:

942: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21202412&postcount=942

944: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21202492&postcount=944

My rebuttal to 944 in 947: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21202535&postcount=947

And your response to 947 in 948: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21202542&postcount=948

If anyone thinks you got the better of me in that exchange, I don’t know how I can help them. I strongly believe otherwise, am willing to link to the posts including your responses, and I stand by them. That’s it. This is why I keep just linking to these posts, because I’m not terribly interested in going ‘round and ‘round with you afresh—so it’s ironic, again, that you are insisting I’m the obsessive.

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Also, it’s weird that someone like you would have such an obsessive focus on errors, meanwhile you make huge, enormous, incredibly stupid mistakes. Like the one I detail in post 948.

Oh wait, you did link to 948, as though that’s a post to be proud of. No, you don’t “detail” any mistake there. You loudly proclaim there is one, but you don’t actually identify a real error.

[quote=“Evil_Economist, post:1060, topic:819086”]

Or your mistake that started this whole thing, which you still don’t understand. I lay it out in post 929.
No, you didn’t “lay it out”. You batted around a straw man. You quoted yourself (inaccurately) characterizing my position, and Kimstu doing the same, then you attacked these straw man positions. You didn’t actually quote me as representing the position you attributed to me, because you couldn’t. Because I didn’t.

As for the latter part of that post, about the “dogs and cows” analogy (the one place in the post you actually quoted my position before attacking it) I stand by my criticism of it, and in fact I revisited that criticism in a much more recent post upthread.

@Evil_Economist

Actually, just out of curiosity, can you show any post on this board where you have ever admitted error? Seems like someone like you should have done that, unless you’re some kind of hypocrite, hmmmmm…?

Here ya go:

@SlackerInc

BTW, mea culpa for raising an eyebrow at the idea that the Quad Cities could have their own pizza style. I honestly thought it was too small a metro area to warrant such a thing. But per Wikipedia, the Quad Cities CSA is #92 in the nation, and there’s a pretty steep dropoff once you get out of the top 100: Fargo-Moorhead, which I would have guessed to be bigger than the Quad Cities, is #116 and is barely over half as populous. Huh!

@SlackerInc

You’re right. I have no answer to that, and I apologize. Lila wants to be called Lila and referred to as “she”, and there’s no reason for me not to indulge her in her preference. Mea culpa.

This BTW was in reply to Kimstu, who responded:

@Kimstu

Manfully conceded (no sarcasm), and I salute you.

Here’s one from a thread that was ultimately closed:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=16806613&postcount=308

Okay, you’ve convinced me that the KKK’s terrorism after Reconstruction is not likely to have made a deep genetic impact (though the social impact was surely dramatic).