To be fair, what thesmallwonder said was "you don't want any opposing points of view from me on your journal", not "you don't want them anywhere". And that's pretty literally what you've said here. I absolutely support your right to enforce your journal as a space that's safe for you in whatever ways you need, so I won't fault you for that at all. (It can make conversations a bit disjointed, though.)
I'll be honest: I too have mostly come to the conclusion that it would not be safe for me to comment on your journal to voice any disagreement with a position you've taken. I simply haven't studied these issues enough to know what sorts of arguments are disallowed (since many of those are not remotely obvious to me), and I understand that you don't want to spend your time catching lots and lots of people up on the basics.
It does make me uncomfortable to see you swear at people or express intense anger toward them for making arguments that, while entirely flawed, are nevertheless very, very commonly used by even well-intentioned people who have not studied this topic (which unfortunately is "almost everyone"). (Admittedly, not noticing an earlier thread on the same topic is poor form.) But again, this is your space and the standards here are yours to define.
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Date: 2011-02-02 03:50 pm (UTC)From:I'll be honest: I too have mostly come to the conclusion that it would not be safe for me to comment on your journal to voice any disagreement with a position you've taken. I simply haven't studied these issues enough to know what sorts of arguments are disallowed (since many of those are not remotely obvious to me), and I understand that you don't want to spend your time catching lots and lots of people up on the basics.
It does make me uncomfortable to see you swear at people or express intense anger toward them for making arguments that, while entirely flawed, are nevertheless very, very commonly used by even well-intentioned people who have not studied this topic (which unfortunately is "almost everyone"). (Admittedly, not noticing an earlier thread on the same topic is poor form.) But again, this is your space and the standards here are yours to define.