Brett Devereaux disappoints

The Baghestan is has been overall a proDevereaux blog. Lately however Dr. Bret (PhD) has been astoundingly uncharitable to one of the Right's higher-IQ spokespeople, here the serving Vice President.

For those without X subscriptions, presently nitter.net will get you there; xcancel seems down this cold weekend. But anyway.

Bret questions whether a concentration of infants signifies a special grave for infants - for everybody; or a trashpit, for brothels. This likely depended on the culture. It is, I think, a conversation worth having. Some - also with PhDs - have tried hosting that conversation, which is how the V.P. knows about it. Because this Veep is smart and reads things. No Quayle he. No Harris neither, for those on the other team; note that Dr Bret can't call this man an idiot.

'Tis also possible the article has been DEBOONKED!!. We've had a dozen years since 2014 to have that conservation too. If there is lying going on, why hit the V.P. and not the authors of the original paper? or anybody else still defending it. At best you hit the V.P. with the accusation his scholarship is out of date (even here, 12 years ain't the worst I've seen in literature).

By the way - as long as we're talking about playing games with our sources, how come Dr Bret didn't provide the link I just did, which his commenters are forced to bring to the table? That sounds like something that raises OBJECTION in courts of law here. Did Dr Bret ever watch My Cousin Vinny?

The online rent-a-sage has, it seems, received the rent he sought. So when he's going into theatrics about, oh, ICE; keep this in mind.

UPDATE 2:40 PM MST - h/t Gaius Latine, from 12 September 7:16 PM UTC last year, here's Dr Bret defending that Charlie Kirk's murderer might be a mainstream conservative(?):

To the center right, at least in American terms. It's an anti-fascist/anti-nazi slogan and quite a lot of conservatives, in theory, do not particularly like fascists or nazis.

Last I checked.

Dr Bret is what Righty bloggers term a Concern Troll. He is making plausibly-deniable insinuations. He is the Hollywood crew preaching Turn The Other Cheek at Christians. Chances that he'd buck any Current Year trend are zero. His integrity is zero. His scholarship, therefore, must be doublechecked.