Anti-Intellectual Lobbying

Nothing personal but I disagree with you.

{Jane, you ignorant slut!}

Sorry, I don't know where that came from. Inner voices or something, I guess.

To continue...ahem..a moderator needs to be able to rise above the crowd and Siggy's dog is a real crowd pleaser. Don't you just love the way short dogs bite at ankles? I wonder if it can jump high enough to bite Siggy in the a....

No. Because intellectualism and intelligence are not synonyms.

It really depends on what your definition of "is" is.

It really depends on what your definition of "is" is.

Fancy footwork, but this isn't even remotely what Ulrika said.
You're setting up your own false syllogism as if it were her's.

Ulrika's syllogism went as follows:

1) People are responding in anti-intellectual fashion to many intellectual proposals lately.

2) intellectual proposals are often responsable for positive change in SL

3) anti-intellectuals are slowing the progress of SL.

Let me list you the fallacies in Ulrika's post and why it only serves as a trollic post:

Fallacy #1: Ulrika is an intellectual

Fallacy #2: Everything Ulrika believes or proposes are supported by intellectuals

Fallacy #3: if fallacy #1 and #2 are true, then it is taken that everyone who opposses Ulrika must be anti-intellectual.

Fallacy #4: is based on fallacy #1, 2 and 3, Ulrika a spokesperson for intellectual can call everyone who is against her anti-intellectual and get away with it, because by this time this fallacy is accepted as truth without any basis whatsoever.

These are well known strategies used by politicians and those we like to assume power over arguments, once they realize discourse alone will not get them what they want, and hold no merit. As such, discusing her trollic post only helps her to further establish her fallacies.

No. Because intellectualism and intelligence are not synonyms.

"Ulrika, you are so right about whatever it is you are saying. All the people who say you are arrogant and self-absorbed are either jealous or to dumb to know how to agree."

Ok fair enough but given this definition of an intellectual my argument still holds true with interchanging "intelligence" with "intellectual".
in·tel·lec·tu·al ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ntl-kch-l)
adj.

1.)Of or relating to the intellect.
2.)Rational rather than emotional.
3.)Appealing to or engaging the intellect: an intellectual book; an intellectual problem.

4.)Having or showing intellect, especially to a high degree. See Synonyms at intelligent.
5.)Given to activities or pursuits that require exercise of the intellect.

Interesting fact...

all Neualtenburg residents have to recite the above pledge every morning in the assembly or we no longer get free tickets to the Octoberfest. It's also the first thing we say in church before the services start.

I've pointed out to her that this is unconstitutional, but hey, it's become a sort of a tradition at this point.

(1) I am grateful that Ulrika and I do not live in the same country, state, county, or city because having to deal with this real life would suck.

On a side note.. hey AMERICANS... while we waste time on this vapor political virtual bull shit, our real life civil rights, liberties, etc. are being stripped away. Don't lose sight of what really matters.

Copying and pasting from a dictionary doesn't constitute a strong argument to me. What are you trying to say? Your own evidence there states that intellectualism relates to the rational rather than emotional.

Yes Kendra. I'm referring not to intelligence but to those who oppose intellectual approaches. You are exactly right.

~Ulrika~

... just like a politician.

It seems like most progressive causes in SL (Bill of Rights, player-run moderation, reformation of land auctions, binding democratic votes) are opposed not by the Lindens or by special interest groups (land barons, forum junkies) that might suffer from the changes but by a crowd of anti-intellectuals, who irrationally resist change.

Much like scientific education in the U.S. is hobbled by those who push for the teaching of irrational theories like "intelligent design", is SL's growth being slowed by a similar group of anti-intellectuals?

~Ulrika~

I am against terrorism. If you disagree with me in any way, then you must be a terrorist.

It's also purely rhetorical and a meaningless thing to say. Many who oppose your ideas do so in a very intellectual way and have arrived at their positions through much thought and debate. You can "intellectualize" this however you like but in the end you've still said basically that anyone who doesn't agree with you is either a moron or has something wrong with them. Entertaining, yes, but also without merit... just like a politician.

GEORGE! /wave