Kishkumen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:37 pm
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:28 pm
The question that I have is where did Robert Boylan get the very detailed idea that “Richard Boylan” was an AA apologist that lives in Birmingham, AL? And if Smoot and DCP knew who was behind Peter Pan, why didn’t they set the record straight? DCP admitted he knew who Peter Pan was, so why did he run with Boylan’s lie? These guys have some very serious explaining to do.
- Doc
From the video, it looks to me like Robert Boylan was not in on the tasteless "gag." He seems to believe sincerely that Richard Nygren, Black LDS apologist, is a real person. So, who was his source?
The claim that Nygren = "Peter Pan" seems like it must have originated with either Parker or Boylan. To my knowledge, though, Boylan is pretty even-keeled and has tended to stay away from the nastier side of Mopologetics, whereas Parker has always had his nose in the mud. So I lean towards Parker being the source. But Dr. Cam has a good point: Why didn't DCP clarify? In his most recent "SeN" entry, he writes:
I had never heard of any “Richard Nygren” until this allegation was first leveled, and I still know nothing about any such person. Until this blog entry, I have never mentioned the name on this blog nor, to the best of my recollection, uttered it anywhere else. If such a person exists, I know nothing about him except that he is definitely not the author or proprietor of Neville-Neville Land. (His Scandinavian purported name, Richard Nygren, sounds about as likely to me for a black man in Alabama as Nordberg, the name that, presumably for slightly comic effect, was given to O. J. Simpson in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!)
It was "first leveled" many months ago via Robert Boylan's YouTube episode, so it should have been clear to Dr. Peterson clear back then that somebody was lying about "Neville-Neville Land" being the work of a Black Latter-day Saint. And he didn't bother to correct that claim. Meanwhile,
in a February 23rd entry, he comments about having dinner with folks in Hurricane. What do you want to bet that one of his dinner companions was Mike Parker, who no doubt got an appreciative pat on the head for his work trashing the Heartlanders?
Regardless, DCP knows now. The question is: what will he do about it? Is he going to publicly disown Parker and "Neville-Neville Land"? I predict that he will say nothing, but that ought to worry him, because like I said: if something like this gets back to Purdy Distribution, it could very well put his moviemaking goals in jeopardy.
"If, while hoping that everybody else will be honest and so forth, I can personally prosper through unethical and immoral acts without being detected and without risk, why should I not?." --Daniel Peterson, 6/4/14