Mistwell
Crusty Old Meatwad
I have no problem answering that. First, I didn't post there for years.
Surely it was more than one year you were posting there, wasn't it?
Secondly, if you remember I was very explicit in the reason I quit posting there years ago was because he and others seemed to be intent on defending bigotry. Even me from from almost ten years ago, who was flat out wrong on some of my own beliefs, couldn't stomach what it was becoming. Onehorsetown, a mod at the time, asked me to stay to act as a counter voice but it was getting really bad. It's exponentially worse since then.
So you communicated back and forth with him, even when you already knew he was behaving that way, for a time. And it got to the point where you couldn't do that anymore, but it took quite a while. Certainly it was many months.
But you will judge others who have not gotten to that point, though they've been communicating with him less than you did so far, because....?
I am not "part of a group" by staying there and refuting what they say when they say it. THAT is the authoritarianism I was talking to Dire Bare about. That implication right there, that by staying and fighting for what I think is right somehow taints me with their views, is toxic. That is not what Popper advocated, that is not how the marketplace of ideas works, that's not what freedom of association means, and that is not a "righteous" position. I am not calling you a coward for quitting - we all have our limits. But I have not reached my limit yet and that should be fine by you and not something you're implying makes me "part of a group" that you were "part of" for quite some time yourself.So unlike you, I actually refused to be part of a group that welcomes blatant white nationalism and misogyny and I left. There are posters there now who flat out take pride in being a bigot as a badge of honor. I want no part of that.