I have to disagree with you here...those who are silent, become suddenly silent when confronted with one of their fellow believers in something, who all of sudden comes out with some very strange ideas...all of a sudden, someone who has been very active on a thread, will just all of sudden disappear, just coincidentally, when someone whose opinion they happened to agree with, all of a sudden says something they did not expect...it happens way to often, that the 'silence' is noticed, as people run for cover...they have seen the claim, for sure, they just cannot and will not refute it publically...
Fair enough, as far as it goes. I thought you were claiming that "all members of a group holding view X" are *obligated* to shout down and/or disavow any moonbat statement made by any member of the group.
That would be so hard to implement, the claim looked like a setup.
I didn't realize you were castigating certain individuals ONLY.
Cheers!