Reply #311: Check out the "dungeon:" you'll spot some of the names dedicated to belligerent argument

[Echo In Light]

Perhaps you're already up to speed, perhaps not...

The "dungeon" is the 9/11 forum here at DU. "Twoofers" is the schoolyard bully taunt geared toward the broad 9/11 "truth movement," or anyone who offers the bully the opportunity to do what they enjoy doing.

An offshoot/byproduct of this outgrowth is a virulent strain of authoritarian backlash which is encompassed by people who are seemingly filled with contempt and rage over what they perceive {I guess} as the outrageous audacity of the 9/11-inside job claim.

By extension, this contempt of theirs carries over into any controversial or even vaguely conspiratorial issue or incident, whereby assailing anyone not on board with 'them' is not only applicable in their estimation, it's clearly sought after and eagerly engaged in with marked zeal and vitriol.

Even going back into the mid to late 90s I recall this phenomenon taking shape at various forums where this type of seriously hateful, Mr Know It All aggression began to manifest ... usually a small group of males with a few "me too!" lackeys and females who 'join that side' as it ostensibly acts as The Voice of Reason even though its true motive and intent is anything but.

These types are quite easy to spot as their rhetoric is usually dripping with condescension and name-calling. If anyone disagrees at all with such a poster, that person is immediately attacked personally as ignorant, crazy, tinfoil, etc.

They intentionally provoke fights, and then when met with the exact type of response they seek, accuse the responder of "incivility," the exact tact they themselves take. It's classic authoritarian projection: imputing to others that which they embody. This is where terms such as "snarky," and "please don't feed the trolls" came about.