Oh, OK Thanks. In that case he pretty much already knows what he said. Clean writing style, too. ;-)
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Uh, Fleetwood, I'm pretty sure you're responding to a new post from js... On Sunday, October 5, 2014 3:33 PM, "fleetwood_macncheese@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Welcome Back! and I mean it. Jedi made a comment about your religious book. It was an insulting and vulgar thing to say, though it hardly warranted your response, in my opinion. Thanks for cleaning up your writing style, I appreciate it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Thanks feste and willytex. Rick reinstated me. A distinction should be made between a religion and it's community. Criticising a religion is impersonal. Criticising a community is personal. I joined FFL more that 10 years ago. I did learn a lot from this forum. It seems Barry and Jim are unhappy with my postings. Should I continue to interact with you folks? --- <feste37@...> wrote : I think that both Dan and jedi should be reinstated, since they were unjustly removed. But also, I think Dan should drop his ridiculous complaint to the ADL, which has no substance and is a waste of their time. I suggest that if anyone wants the best commentary on this incident he or she should read the posts of Richard J. Williams, since every one of them is spot-on in its analysis. --- <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : Dan obviously enjoyed his righteous indignation, but it gave him a blind spot you could fly a 747 through. His grammar and writing, in general, was atrocious, which always sends up a flag, for me, since I doubt very much he was that sloppy with his superiors, during his career. Same as people who, despite being punctual for work, cannot show up on time, socially. An arrogant attitude, masking as casualness. Pretty average fellow, overall, despite his need to have us think otherwise. All the best to him. --- <punditster@...> wrote: The Jedi already had received a warning from Rick, but before Jedi could post a response, Rick banned him. The moderator should at least give the guy a chance to post a rebuttal if he is being falsely accused. Somehow Rick convicted Jedi as guilty of posting anti-Semitism when the Jedi was just posting an opinion of the Torah. Go figure. The key word in the first sentence of Dan's message to Rick is "rampant" anti-Semtism. Rick already agreed that the message in this case was anti-Semitic. So, now the question is to what extent is FFL rampantly anti-Semitic, or is this just an isolated case? So, why would that be cause to ban the jedi_spock? Rick already posted a warning to the jedi_spock. It looks like the jedi_spock was punished twice. Go figure. Rick failed as a fair and balanced moderator. And since Rick deleted the offending file it now looks like a coverup. It's like a secret trial and execution without a trial by a dictator who got everything wrong from the beginning --- feste37 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Booting off jedi for what appears merely to be expressing a view of Judaism seems absurd to me. It has often been said that the God of the Old Testament is, shall we say, a less than attractive character: jealous, vindictive, vengeful, cruel. That's not anti-Semitism. It's mere literary criticism. Yet on this board Little Mickey Jackson is allowed to spew forth his hate speech against MMY and the TMO every single day, full of crude insults and libelous accusations—and that's considered perfectly okay. There are some very curious double standards operating here. --- <punditster@...> wrote: It looks like the forum has lost it's moral compass and without Judy to moderate, the group has fallen further into disrepute. To make matters worse, now the apparent victim has been banned too. Obviously there's some prejudice when a religious belief can't even be discussed. This all could have been settled with just a few words in a private email or two. It looks like attention has been called to the rampant anti-Semitism and libelous accusations posted to the FFL forum - and now the cover-up with the deletion of the offending message. While the informants get to continue posting their negative propaganda and gender bias. That's one solution - stone the victim complaining; remove the offending message; and then ban the informant so he can't post a rebuttal. Go figure. > Bhairitu The semitic race includes Arabs, so if we blast Saudi Arabia are we being anti-semitics? And someone said to bash Zionism is being anti-Jewish. That's like saying all Christians are Republicans. Zionists are a right wing political faction. As far as Dan goes I had him in my Dangeon anyway for being an abusive poster and only replied to comments he started indirectly about TV or movies. --- <Duveyoung@...> wrote: Let's face it, Rick is being practical. The Jews are very aggressive about any antisemitism and could get someone at Yahoo freaked enough to close FFL down. It may not be right to surrender, but it does avoid the danger not yet come. If Yahoo closed FFL, the lost would be significant, but if Rick bans antisemitism, the lost to "the world's ability to have free speech" would be hardly noticed. An easy call for Rick, methinks. Now if the various communities around the world got as aggressively defensive, hoo boy, who could then say anything about anything? Think of all the downtrodden folks who could equally claim the world has smacked them as badly as were the Jews. I've never confronted my Jewish friends about this.....might have to do so, cuz this shit's gotta stop. And, hey, for what Israel is doing to Palestine while Jews around the world remain mostly silent, I say they've lost their right to bitch about Hitler. They should go back to dissing the Pharaoh.