{"id":2632,"date":"2008-02-21T15:12:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2632"},"modified":"2008-02-22T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T07:58:03","slug":"defining-disingenuousness-am-i-beating-a-dead-horse-or-am-i-staring-down-a-headless-high-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2632\/defining-disingenuousness-am-i-beating-a-dead-horse-or-am-i-staring-down-a-headless-high-horseman\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining disingenuousness:\u00a0Am I beating a dead horse? Or am I staring down a headless high-horseman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a comment I just posted to Dustin Luther’s weblog<\/a>. I’m putting it up here, too, so that people can see it (without the typos I found after I posted my 4Realz comment) and so that I can include links without getting shunted into moderation.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I hate this kind of ugliness. But one of the reasons I am married to Greg is because I learned the hard way, a long time before I met Greg, that if you are not willing to stand up for what’s right, you are surrendering to evil.<\/p>\n

This is my comment:<\/p>\n

 
Dustin,<\/p>\n

Disingenuous? From Dictionary.com: “lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere.” You believe that anything here is descriptive of me?<\/p>\n

And let’s look at your entire concluding paragraph:<\/p>\n

“And finally, Cathleen, I\u2019ve been avoiding responding to comments on this thread because there is a small group of people (dare I call it a \u201cpack\u201d) who seem to be searching for any opportunity to defend Greg by criticizing people who were offended by Greg\u2019s comments (seeing as how we\u2019re in the midst of a political season, it seems appropriate to call it \u201cnegative campaigning\u201d). I don\u2019t assume you, or anyone else, was offended by Greg\u2019s post, but it certainly seems disingenuous for you to insinuate that those of us who were offended must have an ulterior motive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How is that not a personal attack? You are smearing the integrity of people who have disagreed with you as a means of undermining their arguments without addressing them. How is this not an ad hominum attack? Or, do you claim to be righteous in offending Teri, Mike, Brian, Russell, Geno and me (the only six from, excluding Greg, twenty-two BHB contributors who have commented on this thread) because you’re Dustin Luther? And, by the way, isn’t your blanket statement that the BHB contributor’s comments “search for any opportunity to defend Greg by criticizing people…” a straw man argument? I certainly didn’t read the kind of defense you describe into either Teri’s or Geno’s comments. So that leaves Russell, Brian, Mike and me. Have you ever seen any Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a comment I just posted to Dustin Luther’s weblog. I’m putting it up here, too, so that people can see it (without the typos I found after I posted my 4Realz comment) and so that I can include links without getting shunted into moderation. To be honest, I hate this kind of ugliness. 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