It's what John Gilmore said and claimed to believe (emphatically, unambiguously, repeatedly) to me in person that I object to, and the intellectually dishonest and factually incorrect way he argued in support of it, but not anything he's written publically, nor who he listens to.
He's been claiming to me and other people that I got mad that he listened to somebody I disagree with, but he's gaslighting about the point I clearly explained to him: I listened to what Scott Adams said too, so I know what he said, and what he's said in the past, and I don't agree with him, and I explained clearly why he was lying and wrong. But John made it extremely clear that he does believe Scott Adams' lies, and other White Supremacist propaganda, and he also spouts ridiculous climate change conspiracy theories.
It's not just because John Gilmore strongly AGREES with Scott Adams, but also that he intellectually dishonestly and emphatically argues in support of White Supremacist propaganda like "Black people are a hate group", and that "White people should stay the hell away from Black people" and "It's OK to be White", and believes he (a successful straight white multimillionaire) suffers from systemic reverse discrimination.
All that in spite of all my arguments and the evidence that I gave him, which he refused to listen to or look at. I'm sure he knows very well what the evidence says, because he's not as ignorant as he's pretending to be, and I certainly tried very hard to explain it to him, he just would not listen to me, and refuses to accept it.
John pretended not to know about Scott Adam's long sordid history, but when he mentioned his girlfriend was coming over, I offered to read some Scott Adams quotes to her so we could hear her opinion, and he got mad and slammed a door in my face and refused to talk with me for the rest of the night. Not the behavior of somebody on the winning side of an argument, or a mature adult arguing in good faith.
“The reality is that women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.” -Scott Adams
