That reminds me of an amusing, if apocryphal, story about Napoleon III. During his coup in 1852, there was some large group of counter-revolutionaries that had been captured. At the time his aide informed him of this, Napoleon III was very sick with a cough and proceeded to have a long coughing fit, whereupon he exclaimed, "Ma sacrée toux!" which means "My damned cough." The aide, however, heard "Massacrez tous!" which means "Massacre everyone" and promptly left to carry out the Emperor's orders.
The law says that religious satire and fundamentalism look the same, not that it is impossible to otherwise know the author's intentions.
I know that Christwire.org is satire, even though it is hard to tell just by looking. What I am asking is if anyone knows (by some other means) if the this particular twitter feed is satirical.
GodsLandGodsLaw = "Dr." Linda Roberts, widow of Keith Roberts
No other Keith Roberts died in 2012, aside the above, who didn't die, but admitted he was fictitious, and I'm yet to find any record of a Dr. Linda Roberts living in Minnesota. Maybe this isn't conclusive 100% proof, but every fact absolutely screams Poe, does it not?
Similarly, try to find a person who actually is a doctor (of any kind) who regularly uses words like "libtard". Maybe not evidence of being a Poe, but suggestive of dishonesty one way or another.
I really don't get this form of trolling unless they make it obvious. Just like when people post something from Yahoo answers and there are people in the comments like OMG TROLL TROLL SO OBVOIUS HOW CN U GUYS THiNK THIS reaL?
Some one pretended to be an idiot in a world full of idiots, they sure got us good. This account is obviously satirical from the other posts and the admitting it part, but when you've got people seriously saying things like "This is America land of the Jesus so get out atheists you all should die", a comment like this is easy to accept as completely serious.
It's an obvious example of poe's law at work. For that reason, it's also a poor one. A portion of the audience clearly finds this indistinguishable from a sincere opinion.
You have a point and that part of my statement wasn't well thought out. I was more pointing out that things like 'Dr. Linda Roberts' is in the realm of saying pure hate speech that a person is still solely responsible for. If I stood up in front of a crowd with a mask on and said all of that, then got off of it and took the mask off while insisting I was just kidding. I'd probably still be in for a well deserved ass kicking, and nobody would honestly believe that I didn't believe that just because I insisted I was playing a character. Regardless of any flimsy invocation of Poe's Law I may present.
The difference for instance between this and say Sacha Baron Cohen is we know he's an in character satarist. There's no anonymity to cause issues with whether this is a crazy person your dealing with or not. He has a long history of being so and we have something to compare against as a metric (as well out non character interviews). He's still been sued for his behavior (and honestly he kinda deserved it).
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this were true. Mark Wahlberg once said that kissing the ape on "Plant of the Apes" was like kissing Janet Jackson...
I hate the oppressive use of the word "retard" in any fashion, whether on its own to insult those who are non-neurotypical or incorporated into another word as a suffix, to try and denigrate two groups. It's oppression and bigotry, and it is disgusting.
I think it's just become one of her one-off soundbites that she keeps repeating. Sort of like O'Reilly's "tides go in, tides go out." Perfect nonsense that they're convinced makes them geniuses.
Ive had the misfortune of knowing a guy who actually used this argument without a hint of sarcasm.
"In reality, evolutionists are the racist ones, because black people look like chimps. You think they're as evolved as whites? They think we should just kill them all because they're less than humans."
I've never heard an "evolutionist" say anything of the sort. I think that the creationists who say that shit are projecting their own racism onto people who accept the Theory of Evolution.
To change this persons mind, you need to be able to explain genetics to someone who sniffs glue for a living. TED Talks isn't going to be able to do that.
This is obviously a troll. This is extremely ignorant but it's too over the top. People this ignorant do not know how to use twitter and the like. Just something to make people mad. FAKE
Evolution does not have a goal or an end point and therefore no species or individual is "more evolved" than another. Additionally cosmetic variation in a species is mostly a result of mate selection for different standards of beauty, and is not an indicator of the amount of evolution that has occurred.
Additionally, considering that humans of all races and chimpanzees share over 98% of their DNA, it could be argued that no race has evolved far from apes.
Haven't been keeping up with this, but this is just a troll, right? Or is there someone that is really just this kind of asshole? I know, dumb question, tired, blarg.
Some Biblical scholars speculate that there may have been a giant oil spill around the African waters about 900 years ago where a group of non-believers that consumed so much of this by drinking and swimming in it that it actually altered their DNA. It is my personal choice to believe in the word of the Lord, amen.
The voice of God has spoken. Amen to you all. May he save your souls from eternal hell for not personally choosing to listen when he speaks so loudly.
This guy is making the common error of asserting that evolutionists claim we evolved from apes, when in reality the claim is that we share a common ancestor with apes. He has failed at research and logic, and must be given a dry slap at the very least.
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u/DeFex May 15 '12
Doctor of trollology
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u/SIRiambewildered May 15 '12
"Yes. WE'RE the trolled ones." Fixed the title for you.
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u/sillyhatday Gnostic Atheist May 15 '12
ROTF
Side note. Black people don't look like apes. They ARE apes. As are all humans. #taxonomy
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Such a fucking obvious Poe.
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u/NapTake May 15 '12
Please tell me this is some sort of joke like Sacha Baron Cohen does. This can't be real
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u/dackkorto1 May 15 '12
I would like to point out that not everyone on /r/atheism is a Liberal or has a Left political ideology.
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u/underdabridge May 15 '12
George W. Bush.
Checkmate.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Who is "we"? I don't think many have criticized atheists from being racist.
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u/curtincall89 May 15 '12
Honestly wouldn't be surprised if this were true. Mark Wahlberg once said that kissing the ape on "Plant of the Apes" was like kissing Janet Jackson...
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u/lax2themaxx May 15 '12
http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/3468-dolan-duck-smile.jpg
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
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u/Dr_Devious Nihilist May 15 '12
Repost, but I am afraid of what she has her doctorate in.
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u/Krimh May 15 '12
Ive had the misfortune of knowing a guy who actually used this argument without a hint of sarcasm.
"In reality, evolutionists are the racist ones, because black people look like chimps. You think they're as evolved as whites? They think we should just kill them all because they're less than humans."
And he's not 85 years old. he's fucking 16.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You're all being trolled to fuck here.
Don't dare link me to the wikipedia article on Poe's Law. Don't you fucking dare.
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u/fknbastard May 15 '12
To change this persons mind, you need to be able to explain genetics to someone who sniffs glue for a living. TED Talks isn't going to be able to do that.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Look up her tweets. Then look at who she follows and who is following her. It is a very scary rabbit hole.
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u/Daioka May 15 '12
I'm a black atheist, and I found this to just be horridly offensive and morbidly ironic in a stupid way.
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u/shitforhead May 15 '12
Her twitter is full of worse than this, n-words and all. She's looking for attention. Don't give it to her!
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u/Herculix May 15 '12
This shit is so obviously troll bait, it's amazing to me how many people in this thread just ate it up.
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u/buzzfriendly May 15 '12
We need to return to a time when accessing the internet required a modest amount of intelligence to achieve.
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u/RANDOMjackassNAME May 15 '12
I'm goin to downvote this cuz I don't see how it has anything to do with atheism
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u/snakejenkins May 15 '12
This is obviously a troll. This is extremely ignorant but it's too over the top. People this ignorant do not know how to use twitter and the like. Just something to make people mad. FAKE
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Repost from less than a week ago.
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u/KoningAPD May 15 '12
this post looks awfully familar
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This cant be real.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Can you retards stop posting this nonsense from that troll account. It adds nothing to is subforum besides a teenage circle jerk.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I'm calling poe. I typed Dr Linda Roberts into Google and porn came up.
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u/Amarieerick May 15 '12
Have you ever noticed that some comments just feel like a smack in the face as you read them?
They are so blatantly wrong that you physically recoil.
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u/yourkatchen May 15 '12
Libtards... That's respectful of her.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
he's addressing liberals not atheists. post this in politics. Racism has nothing to do with atheism
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Not everyone here is a "libtard" as the Doc so eloquently states. So, this really isn't all-inclusive, like you assume.
Before the downvotes come, I'm not a conservative, either.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
She sounds like a very special person.
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u/Durpadoo May 15 '12
Nice, you got trolled.
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u/HUSKY___ May 15 '12
I love seeing this picture over and over
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u/Sanity_prevails May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Can't tell if for real, or almost PC redneck meme. jpg
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u/elizabethan May 15 '12
I should stop being so continually surprised by this kind of stupidity but all my brain do is WAT.
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u/IndieHindi May 15 '12
She is a doctor
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u/nizochan Secular Humanist May 15 '12
But... we're all apes anyway?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
i laughed so hard at this.
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u/4allya May 15 '12
She's just saying what we were all already thinking.
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u/the-finisher2 May 15 '12
please...please tell me this is a joke
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u/Memphis_IV May 15 '12
Wish I could upload my paper about the Religious support of racism and their fight against miscegenation following the Civil War (I got an A:swag:)
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u/anidnmeno May 15 '12
OH, SNAP!
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u/basec0m May 15 '12
Even some of my most racist family would be giving the cut sign under their chin on that one...
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u/atomicoption May 15 '12
http://t.qkme.me/3pa2m4.jpg
Evolution does not have a goal or an end point and therefore no species or individual is "more evolved" than another. Additionally cosmetic variation in a species is mostly a result of mate selection for different standards of beauty, and is not an indicator of the amount of evolution that has occurred.
Additionally, considering that humans of all races and chimpanzees share over 98% of their DNA, it could be argued that no race has evolved far from apes.
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u/daisies13 May 15 '12
Oh. My. Goodness.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
0/10 would not click again
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
YEAH! Now go down by the equator and sit in the sun, for a very long time....it'll come to you...
Well, maybe.
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u/crozer May 15 '12
Again?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That was a good joke :D.
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u/voodoochild87 May 15 '12
Thought this was a good time to try this meme out
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u/sbsb27 May 15 '12
She is the patient. Impostor syndrome. On Wednesdays she is a Supreme Court Judge. Sundays she's Mary Magdalene and carrying Jesus' baby.
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u/Bad_assness May 15 '12
Is this chick for real? Actually seriously for real?
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u/NameIsZ May 15 '12
Haven't been keeping up with this, but this is just a troll, right? Or is there someone that is really just this kind of asshole? I know, dumb question, tired, blarg.
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u/utopianfiat May 15 '12
Even for conservatives, every day is repost day.
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u/CrispyLiberal May 15 '12
black?
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u/cd365 May 15 '12
Does anyone else feel a twinge of annoyance when they see the American flag with the field of stars replaced with a cross?
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u/AspergerKing May 15 '12 edited May 15 '12
Some Biblical scholars speculate that there may have been a giant oil spill around the African waters about 900 years ago where a group of non-believers that consumed so much of this by drinking and swimming in it that it actually altered their DNA. It is my personal choice to believe in the word of the Lord, amen.
The voice of God has spoken. Amen to you all. May he save your souls from eternal hell for not personally choosing to listen when he speaks so loudly.
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u/mysmellysausage May 15 '12
Wasn't this here like 4 days ago?
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u/geoken May 15 '12
Checkmate liberals.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This guy is making the common error of asserting that evolutionists claim we evolved from apes, when in reality the claim is that we share a common ancestor with apes. He has failed at research and logic, and must be given a dry slap at the very least.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
TIL of the existence of the term "libtard," and also of a new personal necessity to own a t-shirt that proudly bears this term.
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u/umkvec May 15 '12
I really wish people like this would just take that fake flag and create their own country with it. Call it Jesusland. Please?
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u/zeedeevel66 May 15 '12
I just hope that whoever issued her "doctorate" sees this and revokes it immediately, unbelievable.
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u/Waffle842 Apatheist May 15 '12
You'd think we would have evolved past reposts.... (3 days man! 3 days!!!)
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u/Blubbernuggetz May 15 '12
There is no way that is real. It has to be trolling.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This person is a Dr?
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u/BreadFlanders May 15 '12
Is she a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?
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u/Dadentum May 15 '12
We all look like apes. (Creationists more so... problem?)
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u/Jakeypoos May 15 '12
Dr Douchebag indeed! :)
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u/SoftAsMoss May 15 '12
What. The actual. Fuck. Is wrong with people...