You heard from one guy on the internet? Where do you get your "high percentage of bona fide antisemites" figures from? Source?
So much for the veneer of civil discourse. It didn't take long for you to adopt the old guilt by association or big tent twoofyism in which anyone who questions 9/11 is now responsible for what some anti-semite says.
This is not civil discourse, Chris, this is the oldest trick in the debunker book.
I always laugh at this " your a bigot " kind of logic.
The premise of someone being a bigot is that they generalizations they make about the people they are bigoted toward are wrong. For example, racists attribute all kinds of negative things toward blacks, they are lazy, they rape white women, they are obsessed with friend chicken, etc.
Now, in the real world this isn't true. But lets take a step into fantasy world for a minute and say that the vast majority of blacks, if not all, portrayed this stereotype. No one would have the right to call the people pointing this out bigots because, the things they are pointing out are true. They may be mean to say, they may not cause people to get along, but if they were true the person is no longer a bigot, just telling the truth.
And that is where this whole " your just intolerant" garbage fails in regards to 9/11. No one is saying all truthers are anti Semites , but the fact is that it contains a much higher percentage of these people than other movements, like skepticism, feminism, moderate religious beliefs, etc. And this is so noticeable, that one can find examples of it constantly just by browsing any 9/11 truth related website.
And furthermore, seldom are these people treated the way they would be in other circles. If a resident JREF'er , who was very skeptical , hated woo, etc. started expounding upon holocaust denial, to make a point about, lets say, psychics, he would be ripped apart. The nicest thing that would be said would be " Your premise of disliking psychics is sound, but your reasons you use to back it up are wacky as ****" , but within the truther circles there is this kind of " You know, that is something worth looking into" attitude, regardless of how extreme and obviously wrong the person is. You let them have their fantasy, and they let you have yours, is the attitude i notice most often.
To tie this in to your post a bit more, this "Your just picking on us." logic is the oldest trick in the truther book. Playing the victim, is the truthers main weapon, always has been always will be. It is to truthers as the revolver is to cowboys, it would be odd to think of a truther that didn't try and use this logic. Even when it is plainly silly, it gets busted out, the best example of this was slightly after the event, for myself.
Was at and running a punk show , with the uninventive title of " **** the government" , getting into the debate , i was accused of being everything from a pro government shill, to an agent provocateur. I just laughed at the absurdness of the accusation. And still 10 years later, the truthers hold on to the victimization card like they are john wayne and it is their trusty peacemaker.
