Posted by thuso on July 14, 2005, at 16:56:29
In reply to Where there's life, there's potential » Lou Pilder, posted by Racer on July 14, 2005, at 14:29:20
> Let me say something here that is not strictly relevant to this particular thread, although you did bring it up in one post here: I, personally, am very deeply offended and upset when you make an analogy between what happens on this board and what happened to the Jews in Nazi Germany. That bothers me a very, very great deal, for very personal reasons, Lou. I find it profoundly disrespectful, and when I read the posts in which you make those analogies, Lou, I experience both rage and grief: rage, because you would dishonor so many people who suffered so much beyond human imagination by equating that suffering with anything that is merely written; and grief for all the people I grew up with and loved and whose memories I still love and cherish WHO ACTUALLY SUFFERED THAT NIGHTMARE!
>Thank you Racer for bringing this up! It's also been making me mad. I've been following this thread, but as soon as I see Lou write Holocaust or or Nazi in his post, I skip it and go to the next one. Otherwise, I'd be starting a fight because it's been bugging me soooooo much. I am extremely offended and annoyed by his comparisons. It's safer for me not to read a post than to read it and then react in the wrong way.
Lou...the way some posts by you in this thread have caused me to react is exactly why Dr. Bob's suggestion was right on. He wasn't referring to you specifically when he wrote that, but in this case I'm able to apply his advice. In fact, I skip posts whenever I see certain words that I know will bring out the fighter in me, so don't think I'm doing this to only you. It's not a personal thing.
But I do have one question Lou. Why have you not been responding to Racer in his last few posts? He's asked you some specific questions and you have yet to respond to one of them. I'm requesting that you do answer him. Will you please do that? :-)
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