Reply #149: "bring out a lot of anger"

[QC]

There's a reason for that.

We have a small group, no more than eight or ten posters, that has decided that there will be no discussion of any position on this issue other than their own. When anyone does have the temerity to post an opinion that doesn't match theirs, they pour into the thread and surround the heretic like a pack of jackals, screaming accusations of xenophobia and shouting, "Why do you hate brown people? Are you sure you're at the right forum? Maybe that other place (wink wink) would suit you better." This is a deliberate strategy to silence dissent, and it has mostly worked.

It's the same sort of rigid groupthink and eyewatering sanctimony that we here once associated with freepers and religious fundamentalists.