New comment on your post "Check out these WASPs"
Author : James Hanley (IP: 64.134.169.97 , 64.134.169.97)
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Jaybird,

I do hope you're just playing with me.  Medieval doctors <i>claimed</i> the humors.  They had nothing to actually point to.  Phrenologists could point to actual bumps, but they couldn't point to actual behaviors or characteristics associated with them, since none actually were.

But when people make false claims about history or current reality--particularly claims that are the known territory of whack-jobs--then yes I normally assume bad faith.  If that's not reassuring, so be it.  I'm not exactly new to the intertoobz, and I've enough experience with the type of ideological whackjobs that populate them to be comfortable dismissing them completely*.  The only trick, as I keep trying to emphasize, is distinguishing between those who just enjoy play-acting at being whackjobs, and those who really are.

(*And, I've noticed, it is those whackjobs who react most angrily and frantically to being so dismissed.  It's actually one of their defining characteristics, so that the very act of loudly objecting to being so dismissed is a fairly reliable indicator that the dismisser was correct in his assumptions.)

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