Dick Gorden’s show tonight had a (truly heroic) woman on who spent time infiltrating white supremacist groups. There is a long, long post in here for me, that I just don’t have in me tonight, largely because it would have to address this post at length, which I basically got tired of arguing at the time, and that entails trying to guess Bob Mike’s first-round arguments, which can be tiring. 
But to get the snark out of the way so that it needn’t pollute that potentially-good yet-to-exist post, here’s Bob Mike, when we were discussing names for non-theists and non-heteronormative peoples:
My problem with “bright” is that it doesn’t really tell you anything about the beliefs of the person in question. Whether you like “atheist” or not, the word is at least accurate. Using “bright” just brings the entire system into the realm of corporate branding. Screw that …
[W]e’re disagreeing on the most effective method of getting [equal rights] done … I feel that it can be best accomplished by gathering together groups that have similar (if not identical) interests into a single, dedicated mass, so “queer” works for me.
To which the obvious-to-me responses are:
1) Yeah, fuck corporate branding. Let’s go with something descriptively accurate like “queer” (?).
2) Betcha there is an at-least-as-high percentage of intelligent (“bright”) atheists as strange (“queer”) GLBTQ folks!
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(The main dissonance that I’m dealing with, which I want to address at length in the post, is becoming blindingly furious at the skinheads and supremacists discussed on the program and finding myself wishing for a baseball bat and a nice, long, private time with each of them, then feeling nauseated at my own hate-and-violence response to hate and violence. “Anger is a gift?” Maybe. But it took Zach one album to go from “What does the billboard say?” to “Now I’m rolling down Rodeo with a shotgun.” I don’t want that.)