It's not just us

I will not wade into this one, it gets so tiresome over here, but Gnu Atheists aren't the only people afflicted with tone trolls. Orac points out that the anti-vaxers are now using the 'civility' argument.

To people who are palpably wrong, the whole world is always going to look very rude to them. You'd think they'd learn after a while that whining about civility is never going to persuade anyone except other shallow, superficial wankers.

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