Belief Blower

There's a phrase that is coming up time and again within the online skeptic/atheist/feminist community - "Shut up and listen".

When a member of a marginalized group tells a member of a privileged group that their efforts, no matter how well-meaning, are wrong, there is one reasonable response: Shut up and listen. You might learn something. - PZ Myers

Dawn Gordon - a lesson in how people find your information based on a picture you've taken: MP4 Video

This is an excellent bit of work on the part of Michael Nugent - "A proposed agenda for structured dialogue to move beyond the rifts in the atheist and skeptic communities". I'm all for what Mr. Nugent proposes. I worry a great deal about how this can even be facilitated even with the ground rules outlined. Many people on both sides of this rift will be hardpressed to at least relent and open discussion.