Mike, I went to my meetup.com account and looked up Modern Atheist. Apparently it's based in Scottsdale, and four organizers are listed, three of whom I know, and two of whom you've met. The two we've both met are an Ashkenazi-descended couple from New York City who go by the screen names Dr. Lisa and Stu K. I think they're in their early 50's. Stu is bald, and Dr. Lisa has long orange-brown hair. We met them both at the southeast valley PAMG atheist meetup sponsored by Holly. I had to laugh when I read that the group was "politically moderate." The last time I attended a meetup with them, Stu was spouting such extreme Libertarianism that he professed to believe that private property owners have a right to shoot down airliners flying over their property without permission. Maybe it was just an act and he's a hypocrite.
The third organizer whom I know, but I don't know if you've met, is named Tim. He was also involved with Holly's PAMG group, but he didn't go to the southeast valley meetups that we attended. I only met him once, when I went to a meetup in Deer Valley in late December 2014. He's a young man with some kind of disability that impedes his walking. I don't know a whole lot about Tim's politics, but he did exclude me from attending a meetup in November 2015 based on my being a racist, and that exclusion led to my exclusion from the whole PAMG.
I don't know if this is just some side group or if these people had some kind of falling-out with Holly. The site claims it is an "exclusive group," so maybe they thought Holly was letting in too many of the riff-raff. The site also claims it's for "professionals," so excluding you may have been an act of class snobbery (and by the same token I probably would not be welcome if I applied even without Tim's presence).
Apart from that Stu and Dr. Lisa might have associated us and not wanted you because I gave you a ride to a meetup they attended. I never insulted either of them, but they might have perceived me as an anti-Semite because I expressed doubt about the Holocaust in their hearing and because I contradicted Stu's narrative about gun control during the Hitler administration. Another possibility is that you were excluded for lack of a current photo. That's one of the site's requirements. They might also be confused that you use the name Val Ramos. Anyway that's what I know about those people. I hope it helps.
--Kevin Walsh
"The south Korean pro-American traitorous forces advocating the theory of 'multiracial society' are riffraffs who have not an iota of national soul, to say nothing of the elementary understanding of the view on the nation and social and historic development." --Rodong Sinmun, 27 April 2006
Saturday, June 18, 2016.
I wonder if Jennifer White is the cause of this.
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