Posted by beardedlady on July 12, 2002, at 5:43:19
Dr. Bob:
> Yes, she repeated your exact post. But (what seemed to me to be your) intentions entered into it. It would've been more fair not to have taken intentions into account?
It has, at last, occurred to me that you do this on purpose, as no one can be this thick by accident. Well, almost no one.
We all make mistakes. I don't blame you for an occasional unfair block, like that of Sandra Dee. And I don't blame you for defending the sensitive crowd or for steadfastly sticking to your civility guns or for choosing to ban what you see as offensive language or for any of the other little thorns in our sides of late. In fact, I thank you for bringing together some of the loveliest people I've known.
But I do blame you for all the times you have been wrong and have refused to apologize to the people whose feelings you have hurt. I blame you for your inflexibility. I blame you for your refusal to respond to the whole post (whole person?), rather than just a line. I blame you for all your sarcastic, one-line barbs disguised as cutesy quips and defended with faux innocence.
And I especially blame you for the special type of civility practiced by passive aggressors.
IMHO? It's pretty fucked up.
I hope this experiment will teach you something about human nature, about the fragility and strength of the human soul, about the nuances of language, about what happens when you put lions and tigers and bears, rats and snakes, dogs and cats in the same cage.
beardy
Maybe you can start with this: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020627/msgs/6230.html
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