“How to Be a Successful Millennial Ex-Mormon: A Guide for Beginners”

I’ve already seen squeals of indignation complaining that Stephen Smoot is painting them with a broad brush, that what he says isn’t entirely representative of each and every ex-Mormon.  That his little piece is unfair.

Obviously.

But broad generalizations are virtually indispensable to satire.

Satire (think, for example, of political cartoons) is rarely if ever nuanced and entirely fair.  It shouldn’t be confused with a doctoral dissertation.

I’ve been studying anti-Mormons (and their subspecies, aggressive ex-Mormons) for many years now, though, and I can plainly tell that Brother Smoot has been observing them carefully, too:

http://www.plonialmonimormon.com/2015/10/how-to-be-successful-millennial-ex.html

Moreover, at least some of those complaining the loudest about his alleged unfairness and over-broad generalizing have themselves been guilty of those very vices, and of encouraging and applauding those very vices — though with far less good humor and far more personal animosity — for a long, long, long time,