Which makes for a handy immunizing strategy against criticisms of your post, n'est-ce pas?

It's my understanding that your criticism of my post was that the anecdote would be distracting. One of the explicit purposes of my post was to examine a polarizing example of [the fallacy of not taking criticism seriously] in action--an example which you proceed to not take seriously in your very first post in this thread simply because of a quote you have of Eliezer blowing the criticism off.

The ultimate goal here is to determine how to evaluate criticism. Learning how to do that when the criticism comes from across party lines is central.