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Originally posted by bilmore
I complained to you of rhetoric that struck me as being as insulting to me as Club's rhetoric struck you, but I didn't tell you that I would forever avert my eyes from your face were we ever to meet, because, beyond the personal insult that one can quickly take, I knew that you were essentially speaking in the shorthand of modern political debate, and likely didn't actually mean that I was either personally out there killing gramps, or even personally fighting for causes that I knew would result in gramp's death.
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Still don't see it. My joking about you killing gramps would be in poor taste and beyond the rules of decorum, not mere rhetoric, if, for example, your grandfather had in fact recently been murdered. We really had a 9/11, and it is still a bitter, bitter pill to hear someone say that my emotion about it is not genuine.
I'm suggesting an apology is in order, and your response is, hey, it's an Internet chat board, anything goes?
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Please keep in mind that one person's Let's Throw Mama From The Train is another's Red Dawn, and let's not be too quick to call mortal insult when we might be doing that ourselves.
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Um, we had posters on the old board who said that the Iraq war was motivated by racism and hatred for Arabs among the administration, etc. As I recall, he was completely marginalized and ostracized. I have his socks on ignore. So don't tell me we have absolute tolerance for personally offensive views.
Anonymity has its place, but if I see a poster abusing anonymity to say jaw-droppingly horrible things to me that I think have even a hint of sincerity, I will do the only thing I can. You can't break someone's fucking teeth in on a chat board --- it's a limitation of the technology.
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It's intention versus perception. Knowing what I know of you, I doubt you were calling me a killer.
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Bilmore, when did that hypothetical become so real to you?
You originally made it up as a reductio ad absurdem of what you perceived to be a liberal thought --- at the time, I thought it was proof of how out of touch you are with intelligent liberals wherever you choose to live --- and now you pin it on me as if I'd ever actually posted such a thing? You're weird.
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Knowing what I know of Club, I doubt he was saying you were unaffected by 9/11.
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Then he shouldn't fucking joke about it. Capiche?
Go back and read clubby's post, and then contemplate that it brought back all of the rage I felt when I posted
this post on the old FB.
"Petty crime." Fucking cocksucker owes 51% of America an apology.
