--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote:
> >
> > Judy:
> > > > > > Nope, but I've never expressed a critical
> > > > > > opinion about it, either (just as I have not
> > > > > > done so with either "The Sopranos" or
> > > > > > "Apocalypto," you see).
> > 
> > Judy a few months ago (stuff in brackets in the 
> > 2nd paragraph and all of the Subject title and 
> > final paragraph:
> > > > > Subject: Mel Gibson, Christian bigot
> > > > > 
> > > > > ...If there were ever an apocalypse in the 
> > > > > history of the Maya -- and herein lies the 
> > > > > ultimate demoralizing irony of the movie -- 
> > > > > it would be because of European contact. But 
> > > > > in the movie, after two hours of excess, 
> > > > > hyperbole and hysteria, the Spaniards represent 
> > > > > the arrival of sanity [i.e., Christianity--JS] 
> > > > > to the Maya world. The tacit paternalism [and 
> > > > > bigotry--JS] is devastating.
> > > > > 
> > > > > To highlight what the writer tactfully leaves
> > > > > implicit, Gibson has slandered the Maya and
> > > > > mangled history for the purpose of exalting the
> > > > > purported superiority of Christianity.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm sure she doesn't consider any
> > > > of them "critical opinion," but I'm not sure 
> > > > how many people would agree with her.
> > > 
> > > Of course they aren't "critical opinion."
> > > 
> > > > As for the film itself, as an exercise in fair-
> > > > ness and "intellectual honesty," or maybe just
> > > > to see whether her *obvious* "critical opinion"
> > > 
> > > Obviously *not* "critical opinion."
> > 
> > Thank you for redefining "critical opinion" 
> > for us, Judy. 
> > 
> > I look forward to using the term "bigot" in
> > future posts here when referring to you, 
> > secure in the knowledge that you (a profes-
> > sional editor, after all) have declared that
> > the use of this term is not critical.
> 
> Or perhaps, in light of the unprovoked attack
> you *started* this short week (for you, at 
> least...you only have one post left) with, 
> I should refer to you as "the pigot."
> 
> :-)
> 
> I'm making this post while you've still got one
> post left, in case you want to get the inevitable
> response out of your system before you take 
> another "long weekend." That way you won't have
> to carry your anger around with you all weekend 
> like you obviously did *last* weekend.
> 
> Within two hours of your arrival back on FFF, you
> had made one post calling Vaj a liar, and another
> slamming me by bringing up a three-year-old 
> grudge that you're obviously still fuming over.
> I'm pointing it out because sooner or later you're
> going to trot out the line that you resort to ad
> hominem here because you've been "attacked."
> 
> You *weren't* attacked. *You* attacked. And you 
> didn't have to. >>

Don't know what this thread is about, but considering you, 
Turquoise, have never apologized for some of the most disgusting and 
hateful attacks (against Judy) I have ever seen, you have no 
credibility about anything like this until you apologize like a man. 
She has shown incredible restraint considering your hateful attacks 
of the past. 

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