12-18-2008, 12:37 AM
>>some questions aren't responding to. swampy's question was one of them.
That's a heck of a way not to respond to it. How many new threads, snarky comments in other threads, does it take not to respond to it?
>>>It's not about Swampy the person, or about Swampy the conservative.
You've done the same thing many times, as have others. Not once has it been done to anything but a conservative post.
>>It's that the question assumes that the reader is either monstrously partisan, or just a fool...whatever the difference may be. That's what I heavily resent.
Nothing wrong with resenting it. I was talking about the way that you resent it. There seems to be this idea that what Swampy (or insert Spearmint, Beerman, or Dakota, etc) said is sufficiently "wrong" that _anything_ said or done back is justified. I see it as an attempt to show they're not welcome here, thinly veiled as "humor". I want to see a variety of viewpoints here, whether they assume we're fools, contain logical fallacies, appear ignorant, etc. It's not interesting if it's just one "clique". And beyond that, it's not your responsibility to purge this forum of people who don't meet your standards. If you don't like the way they operate, DON'T RESPOND.
>>In the thread below, the one that started all this, I don't see any comment by Greg that is anything but courteous. Will you point out the post to which you object, kj?
I'm referring to the many threads mocking the swampy post you refer to. "Just kidding" doesn't get it for me. The same thing's been done repeatedly, and the only conservative people who would continue to stay here with that kind of treatment are the ones who like to fight. It actually is that irritating. I've only seen conservatives gang up on someone once here, and people went nuts about how awful it was. kj.
That's a heck of a way not to respond to it. How many new threads, snarky comments in other threads, does it take not to respond to it?
>>>It's not about Swampy the person, or about Swampy the conservative.
You've done the same thing many times, as have others. Not once has it been done to anything but a conservative post.
>>It's that the question assumes that the reader is either monstrously partisan, or just a fool...whatever the difference may be. That's what I heavily resent.
Nothing wrong with resenting it. I was talking about the way that you resent it. There seems to be this idea that what Swampy (or insert Spearmint, Beerman, or Dakota, etc) said is sufficiently "wrong" that _anything_ said or done back is justified. I see it as an attempt to show they're not welcome here, thinly veiled as "humor". I want to see a variety of viewpoints here, whether they assume we're fools, contain logical fallacies, appear ignorant, etc. It's not interesting if it's just one "clique". And beyond that, it's not your responsibility to purge this forum of people who don't meet your standards. If you don't like the way they operate, DON'T RESPOND.
>>In the thread below, the one that started all this, I don't see any comment by Greg that is anything but courteous. Will you point out the post to which you object, kj?
I'm referring to the many threads mocking the swampy post you refer to. "Just kidding" doesn't get it for me. The same thing's been done repeatedly, and the only conservative people who would continue to stay here with that kind of treatment are the ones who like to fight. It actually is that irritating. I've only seen conservatives gang up on someone once here, and people went nuts about how awful it was. kj.