Open Letter to Matt

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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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Great news, thanks for the update!

I look forward to it.
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The videos are now up and live!
Open Letter to Matt 1https://youtu.be/fXVR6WINHeI
Open Letter to Matt 2https://youtu.be/JafxVaoNFF4
Open Letter to Matt 3 https://youtu.be/4ZLbZ9INv3M
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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The videos are great, thanks for your effort! This is an amazing way to bring the message across.
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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very nice videos, good job! I am just sad you pronounced "utilitarian" as "ulitarian" in the 1st one @12:20, hehe :D
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TheVeganAtheist wrote:The videos are now up and live!
Open Letter to Matt 1https://youtu.be/fXVR6WINHeI
Open Letter to Matt 2https://youtu.be/JafxVaoNFF4
Open Letter to Matt 3 https://youtu.be/4ZLbZ9INv3M
Great! Watching them now.

You pronounced utilitarian as ulitarian in the first video at 12:22
u·til·i·tar·i·an
yo͞oˌtiləˈterēən/

I'm not sure if anybody says it how you did, so that was kind of weird. Probably a slip of the tongue. That's the only thing I'd suggest fixing.

Excellent illustration of the dialogue. You did a great job with the video clips too.

On to part 2...
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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At the end of the third video, you said "Don't forget to check out part three", but I just watched part 3.
You've created an endless loop! ;)
That might be worth a quick edit to, to avoid confusing people.

You could say "If you missed parts one and two, don't forget to check those out" linking to them.
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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The open letter formatting looks good, but all of the links are broken:
http://theveganatheist.com/an-open-lett ... illahunty/

They have a strikethrough applied, and they all go to theveganatheist.com instead of just http
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It turned out great! Really looking forward to see Matt respond—if he does. Either way it feels to me like the videos have a lot of persuasiveness in it to make people think clearer on the issue.

Wonder what Francione would think if he saw this. :lol:

I noticed both mistakes knot and brimstoneSalad also noticed, and are both worth fixing indeed.
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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Just watched the videos and they were very nicely done. I look forward to being a part of the next group activity.
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Re: Open Letter to Matt

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Great job with the videos!
Matt Dillahunty wrote:I'm not sure when/if I'll finish watching this. Bizarrely misrepresenting a 7-year-old video and accusing me of dismissing scientific consensus while YOU are misrepresenting what the AHA actually says about meat (already posted 2 quick links) is rather strange.

I might fisk the whole video if there's time, but I'm off to do an interview.
Matt Dillahunty wrote:And, I'm only a little over 6 minutes in, so maybe it gets less dishonest.
(in the comment section)

:/ Doesn't seem like he's that open minded about it...
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