--- 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. OffWorld .
