jan gyn wrote:
> At 10:07 AM 3/23/01 -0800, Kakki wrote:
> >Artheo,
> >I know that you have apologized but what you wrote about Marcel was plain
> >old vicious. There was no misunderstanding due to the lack of inflection
> >and facial reaction in the email communication in this instance. What you
> >wrote is a well-used perjorative slur commonly tossed out at people who are
> >Republicans. Maybe you truly didn't know that and just used it by
> >coincidence.
> >There are two very common and dangerous myths that exist in this community.
> >One is that everyone here is a Democrat/leftist and that Marcel is the only
> >Republican.
One good reason for that is anyone who disagrees with a right wing opinion is
instandly labelled stupid and leftist and recieves either private or public rude
posts.
Expressing one's opinion is fine but not rudely. And yes, some people do get
singled out for minor 'infractions'. It happened to me recently, some person
moaning about a rude private post being answered publicly. That same person then
sent my private reply to the list and hasn't had the decency to apologise for it.
Passive agressive crap.
It is quite simple: state your feelings/opinons freely. But so so without
denegrating anyone else. It is not that hard. If you set yourself up as a target
by forcefully and rudely stating your opinions, you are going to get the flack.
It works that way. cause and effect. It is somewhat unrealistic to think the
result would be different.
>
> >The other is that there are "insiders" or people from the "inner circle"
As far as I am aware, there is only one person who thinks there is an inner
circle and he even has the list of it's members!
In the end we get the list we deserve. If we allow people to get away with
tearing others down, they will continiue to do it. If we stamp on people who do
object to this behaviour, it will continue. The thing that pisses me off the
worst is the cowardice shown by people who post publicly one way and privately
nastily or who support people's positon privately and but not publicly.
I managed to stay naive until, my 30's. Until then I just could not understand
how the Holocaust happened. Unfortunately i do now know. Otherwise good people
sat back and did nothing. And no, I have not gone off on a tangent with this
remark.
