But prosecutable or not, is it reasonable to call a persistent attempt to contact someone who has asked you to stop, blocked you, sought legal protection & threatened to call the police which went on for months & included threats to sit in front row of class 'harassment?' Yes.
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I think this would be immediately clear if the target was a woman. I remember Sargon getting accused of harassment for going to one of Sarkeesian's talks after having been very critical of her online. I don't think that counts as harassment, myself, but this certainly does.
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I think Sargon has the sort of fans that go after people image witch hunty fashion, so that may be the difference. But it seems a bit like one group wants to call people snowflake but find clever and interesting ways to avoid criticism themselves.
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Quite possibly but Phil is also in witchhunty circles. We can be against witch hunting consistently Depends what we mean by 'snowflake'. This is less about accepting criticism & more about trying to prohibit certain speech, particularly in universities, because words do harm.
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I will put it another way, I feel people find ways to make things that are very similar seem dissimilar and I think that's happening here. But you know more of the detail of this, but from the outside, this snapshot looks pretty bad.
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Could you be a bit more specific? I still don't know what you mean?
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Perhaps PT got sensible responses when he first tried to criticise and that's why these repeated attempts to engage by him are seen as stalking, maybe they are as extreme as you say. But just from this snapshot it looks like they want an excuse not to respond and engage.
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I think this is good enough reason not to respond & engage but I also think you don't need one. Shld just be able to ask people to stop contacting you & they respect this. I've been dealing with someone like this for 18 months now. I don't need to justify wanting to be left alone
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He might be a lovely bloke. He might be right that God exists & that I must understand this. I still don't have to hear him. I've blocked him everywhere, gotten legal advice, ignored online obsessing & if he threatens to turn up at my workplace, I will call the police.
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There is no problem with PT being very critical of penis hoax & writing abt this. Or being very critical of new atheism & writing abt this. The problem is trying to force individuals to hear it when they've made it clear they want him to leave them alone.
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You don't need to understand why one person would want another to leave them alone. You just need to accept that they have the right to decline contact with them & call the police if they ignore this & turn up at their workplace. My daughter prosecuted someone for this.
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If you want to understand why, look at PT's timeline for obsessive & deranged ranting about various people. He has the right to do this but can't blame them for avoiding him & being afraid when he threatens to turn up at their work. This is not normal. It is not OK.
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