Eh, he’s doing a pretty good job of making himself look stupid and racist with every post. I won’t waste time with him, but no big loss if others do.
I’m hoping his arguments will help convince the Mods to make the right decision. 
I’ve had him on permagnore for… so long I don’t know how long or why. But given his usurpation of the ATMB thread, I assume it was for his racism.
Hah, I would have had the very first response! Then, like you, I thought better of it, deleted my response (1. Cite? 2. Cite? 3. Cite? 4. Cite? 5. Cite? 6. Cite? 7. Cite?), and reported the thread’s OP as trolling.
Drat. I’m losing track. Who’s the bellend?
I went to the thread to check, and I’m pretty sure the “bellend” descriptor was being applied to The_Other_Waldo_Pepper, rather confusingly referred to above as “TOWB”.
The Other Waldo Butters?
This is actually something I’ve thought about. Two reasons for me:
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I’ve been called a troll before and I know I’m not, so I want to err on the side of being too lenient.
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Sometimes I know what they’re doing, but they brought up something I want to discuss or something I would get catharsis out of talking about.
My main strategy is just to limit my engagement if I decide to engage at all. But I’m aware there’s a downside to that, in that I still can get upset, and my little bit of troll food can help fuel them. It’s not always the person who keeps feeing them that’s the problem–it can be the people who give little nuggets.
But, as long as others seem to get that they’re trolling, I don’t see that as too bad. Plus, it’s not like other people don’t have responsibility for their own responses.
Indeed. I thought his intentions were clear from very on in that thread, so I checked out right away rather than waste my time; nevertheless I do salute the yeoman’s work done by everyone else in the thread attempting to pin him down and get him to elaborate on his bland-faced evasions and thereby demonstrating why engaging him on the subject is so unproductive.
Professor Chaos and General Disarray?
I admit to falling into this category more often than is probably healthy. I’ve said so a few times in this very thread. However, I wanted to give support, and was even able to get minor concessions from DrDeth. When WantsToUsePepperSpray started in, it was obvious he wasn’t going to even pretend to argue in good faith, so after 1.5 exchanges with that individual I was done. Probably for the best.
Wrong Butters.
The South Park Butters is named Butters Stotch.
https://media.tenor.com/ERa47gPVan8AAAAM/the-more-you-know.gif
Just in case anyone didn’t see the most recent note from W_E in ATMB, the troll that enabled this most recent event has been banned and the thread cornfielded.
So long jackass, but I (and others) suspect you’ll not truly gone…
Knowing how he spectacularly wrong got the concept of what a science test is, I think
“The other Karl Popper abuser” fits.
He also had a very unhealthy idea about demanding that one should produce a test of science that was personally made about the subject. Never mind that there were many tests that one pointed out to him before, that were made by experts.
Well, the TOWP pretends now that I never told him before that I originally came to the US as an undocumented immigrant. Most of my family members actually got to immigrate legally, but as the civil war in El Salvador in the 80s got worse, I had to leave. And pass the border in Tijuana to join my family.
Anything from him to still pretend that his bigotry is not there still.
And I would say to Sam Stone also that:
Yeah Sam. We would not like to find dopers that are an example, who explain why it is bad when some Dopers are using “Invaders” against the undocumented. Calling them invaders is clearly an asinine thing to do, because no one offers amnesty to invaders, they did offer amnesty to undocumented people like me because they did not do such a thing as the word actually means:
This is not the thread to continue the debate. Start a new Pit thread or maybe, better yet, let it drop for a little bit.
I hope the mods are still discussing and will still consider the issue originally raised in the ATMB thread which is now also closed.
Check the last 3 posts of the thread, we are.
In particular…
Continuing the discussion from "Illegals" and "invaders" should be moderated as hate speech in the context of immigration debates: