{"id":5757,"date":"2011-12-19T14:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2011-12-19T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T20:57:22","slug":"weve-talked-about-this-enough-we-can-shut-up-now-or-dont-feed-the-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/weve-talked-about-this-enough-we-can-shut-up-now-or-dont-feed-the-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Talked About This Enough, We Can Shut Up Now (Or, Don’t Feed the Trolls)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing from the previous conversation<\/a> …<\/p>\n

I’ve written about this before (Shut up about everything all the time unless what you have to say is HITLER!!!!<\/a>) and it relates to the previously discussed topic, as Godwin-Scaping<\/a> is a way to tell someone to stop talking. Richard Dawkins told Rebecca Watson that her comments were not about the repression of women by Islam, therefore she should shut up. Numerous Nuclear Power Apologists have told Ana Miller and me to Shut Up about Fukushima<\/a> because more people die in automobile accidents world wide every day than were killed by radiation at that power plant. Recently, Rebecca Watson wrote about how being told to “not feed the trolls” <\/a>might sound like friendly and helpful advice (and may even be meant that way sometimes) but it is actually just another way to tell people to shut up. <\/p>\n

I’ve also referred to this as the “Watch the Monkey<\/a>” strategy, as invented by the famous lawyer Johnny Cochraine. Well, for him, it was done with a glove, but South Park saw it differently:<\/p>\n