Barry has made it clear that he thinks anyone who didn't find Robin's having struck his students a Very Bad Thing was a "die-hard cultist," and he has claimed that Robin's supporters were such cultists because we had tried to defend Robin's hitting behavior.
Contrary to Barry's claim, only one person on FFL, in fact, has done that. Now, who could that be? Here's what this Mystery Cultist said to Robin the morning after Robin posted his Open Letter in January 2012 (it's from the ninth paragraph of the post). I asked Barry whether he could identify the Cultist from the quote: "There is plenty of compassion here for weird shit we all did in our past and this doesn't sound like such a big deal. There were a whole bunch of weird psychological 'breakthrough' cults that seem to be far worse than what you were running back then. If you weren't banging your disciples ten deep in Elvis' Graceland white panty parties, you come off as better than most people in your position of power over the entranced." Barry hasn't said who he thinks the Mystery Cultist is. Either he really has no idea--which is strange, since he's so obsessed with the folks on FFL he thinks are cultists--or for some reason he's reluctant to say who it is. I suspect it's the latter, myself. Take a guess. Then check out this link to the post in question and see whether you agree with me that Barry would *really* prefer that the Mystery Cultist remain anonymous: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/302457 When I first posted this quote Thursday evening, BTW, I predicted that we would hear no more fulminating from Barry about "cultists" doing any "justifying" in connection with Robin's Open Letter. I was right. I'm going to make one more post--a repost of Robin's Open Letter itself--then I think this particular kerfuffle will be all wrapped up, and Barry will have to think of a new one.