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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The slandering isn't exactly one sided there.
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As far as I've seen, there is a big difference between what the two sides here do. Well, I can't really say much about Stross, not having read any of his contributions to the debate, but I've read a bit of what Scalzi has to say about VD, and while he calls him many colourful names, he never even comes close to what VD did in his "McRapey" campaign, for which he took a quote from an obviously sarcastic satirical piece by Scalzi to publicly accuse him of confessing to being a rapist - even after being told Scalzi's article was satirical (which he had known from the start of course.)
That is what I meant by slander: repeatedly falsely accusing someone of a serious crime in order to discredit their views. That's on a whole other level than namecalling.
How anybody can take someone who resorts to such tactics seriously as a contributor to public debate (rather than as a threat to society, common decency and intelligence) is beyond me.