Patterico Banned at Villainous Company!!
The round of blackballing continues at Villainous Company, where Cassandra has assembled The Official 2010 Villainous Company Banned Bloggers List:
Patterico. We are not sure how he manages to maintain street cred as a Crypto Lefty Racist Accuser type whilst simultaneously sporting a righteous Crypto Reich Wingnut Racist Appeaser persona, but one thing is certain.
Any blogger who has been accused of so many mutually exclusive offenses by so many important bloggers is Not To Be Trusted.
Banned, sucka. And don’t go bringing your tricksy ways around here neither. We see how you are. Oh yes, we see.
Given Villainous Company’s sordid and notorious contributions to the slow demise of classical liberalism, I will wear the banning as a badge of honor.
Read the whole post; Cassandra takes another sledgehammer or two to classical liberalism by humorously suggesting that the Internet sometimes paints with a bit of a broad brush:
[T]he Transitive Property of Internet Idiocy allows us to impute the utterances of one blogger to every other blogger of his acquaintance, to anyone who shares the same political persuasion or who dares to agree with him. This is entirely justified because, unlike Them, We are always fair and reasonable. Thinking people realize that “They” (yes, every durned one of them!) all think alike. “We” would never do anything like that, though. We think for Ourselves. You see, unlike some folks we could name (you know the type – smug, morally superior, blind to their own faults) we’re just better than they are. We’re tolerant and open minded folk: above the sort of wildly exaggerated, broad brush generalizations They employ with profligate abandon in lieu of, oh, I don’t know, logic, actual arguments, or other irrelevant/boring fare.
Making a related point is my pal Marc Danziger, who complains about the tendency of some to whitewash facts that conflict with their Big Story:
I don’t like Big Story thinking. It suggests that people who are uncomfortable with the ambiguity of reality. I like thinking that can take a position and embrace the facts that challenge it.
I sometimes get annoyed with the blogosphere because issues so often get reduced to an overly simplistic formulation that excludes inconvenient facts and drives everyone to the extremes. People like Marc and Cassandra — and many readers here — make it easier to keep going.
Marc is definitely good people.
SPQR (26be8b) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:18 amWords from an old guy
No they don’t speak to Patt and the internet, but do provide a kick in the aSS to the one.
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Goodness Patt, all these banning s, in such a short amount of time…. did your meds get altered? 🙂 Naw….
Hey this one I’ve shared around before. Told the old lady that shared it with me I would try and keep it alive.
Keep yer pecker up morassy, the sun will shine again.
She said it came out of the depression era, who am I to argue? ::~
TC (0b9ca4) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:19 amTC,
Cassandra’s “ban” is a joke.
Patterico (231873) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:27 amMaybe you knew that, but just in case . . .
Patterico (231873) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:35 amWhat is this thing called the internet, and where can I buy one?
Official Internet Data Office (0247d7) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:37 am“What is the internet? Is it a computer with the internet inside? You don’t know, but Adult Swim does…”
chaos (9c54c6) — 1/3/2010 @ 11:57 amCongrats on the bannination, PARIAH!
daleyrocks (718861) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:02 pmI haven’t felt this sad since Peter Pan banished Tinkerbell on account of Wendy.
nk (df76d4) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:12 pmThe CJ sockpuppet making the rounds at VC and other sites is actually pretty funny. It may not be politically correct to laugh at one’s decline into full blown insanity, but, I stopped being PC a long time ago.
sybilll (6622fc) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:12 pmNot a fan of sock puppets unless they’re really obvious. And sometimes what is obvious to you is not obvious to others.
Here, the other day, “Tiger Woods” commented. That was obvious.
Not all sock puppets are as obvious.
Patterico (231873) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:33 pmStifle dissent! Stifle dissent!!! Glenn Beck bad = all of FOX News bad. Bambi no go where bad people are. Rush bad = all conservative radio bad. Advisors no go on non-NPR non-Air America radio. Patterico allow discussion on race, including opinion that race no matter. What he thinking? Race mean everything! Ban the non-racist!!!
Icy Texan (608536) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:34 pmOf course, it helps when the guy being sock puppeted doesn’t ‘self-parodize’
TTC (ed79da) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:39 pmYou caught me Pat, 🙂
I failed basic followup 101. 🙁
TC (0b9ca4) — 1/3/2010 @ 12:39 pmFor Thanksgiving, I was banned from a Fiat sportscar website run by PNW crypto-fascist lefties. My crime? Daring to offer opinions (on a forum that is touted as for all things not Fiat) that run counter to PNW liberal dogshi… er, dogma.
And now my Fiat X1/9 won’t start. I’ve been doubly cursed by the Gods!
GeneralMalaise (68a574) — 1/3/2010 @ 1:28 pmNice job, Patterico.
KingShamus (fb8597) — 1/3/2010 @ 1:31 pmI don’t follow these things too closely, but yes, thank goodness my suspicion that she was kidding was correct, LOL!
Patricia (b05e7f) — 1/3/2010 @ 2:17 pm10, Geez, this is why you are the blogger, not me. Someone did in fact think CJ was posting. Sheesh, I thought it was obvious when the sockpuppet said “you have been banned from the internets, leave at once”, that was not CJ. I correct my support of funny sockpuppetry, unless, of course, I am at AoS.
sybilll (6622fc) — 1/3/2010 @ 2:47 pmWell I am certainly happy this was snark because I LOVE Villanious Company though I don’t get by as much as I would like because I pretty much sit my butt over at Redstate though I hit here at least 4 times a day 🙂
Jaded (1f19fe) — 1/3/2010 @ 3:38 pm