As you seem to have missed it, the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist using the mouse. He is calling Unix users who don't use the mouse dogmatists.
> the author isn't positioning himself as a dogmatist using the mouse
I never said that he did.
> He is calling Unix users who don't use the mouse dogmatists
He is not. The actual article reads:
"It seems as though an irrational fear of the mouse dominates amongst Un*x dogmatists".
This observation also isn't relevant to my comment, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up.
My point stands - you absolutely are a rebel among Unix-users to use the mouse.
Your mocking statements like "Hahaha, like you are some sort of brave free-thinker for using the mouse!" don't do anything to improve your arguments that are mostly lacking in support.
Not quite, I want to say is there are Unix dogmatists, that don't use the mouse because of what they think the right way to use a Unix-like system is, not that preferring to use a mouse or not makes you a (Unix) dogmatist.
I'll rather accept what you said earlier in this thread (the "I wrote this mess ..." post): that you simply meant to be provocative. That's OK in my book, even when it doesn't turn out all that great. Nothing wrong with the rest of the article, either.
Good thing then they never said the article was directed at that subset of Unixers. It was only that little provocative starting section that was.