At 10:00 AM 6/10/2009, you wrote:
[Ron]
The gun rhetoric was getting worrisome.
[Arlo]
Yeah, this was my concern too. I don't mind they typical ad hominems deployed
by people like Nick and Platt, they're funny and I usually just
respond to them
in kind. I see Platt has confused this, trying to equivocate this with direct
references of "I will kill you". That's either really sad, or really horrible
on Platt's part.
The right-wingers love their ad hominems, and Nick's barrage of socialist,
commie, leftists, etc. just follows Platt's perennial buffoonery. When Nick
shifted gear to thief, murderer, tyrant, etc. he got more aggressive but was
also simply walking lock-step with the likes of radio blowhards like Mark
Levin. But the "*pat* *pat* I have my gun waiting right here" put
Nick over the
edge. To be honest, he doesn't live far away from me, and it stopped being
funny. I don't mind being called names, hell that's all Platt has been doing
since I joined, but threats of being shot? Yikes.
And I see Platt's already it, "socialist censoring"... he's like a
vulture that
smells carrion. This has nothing to do with with his "right-wing" views, since
Platt and Ham have never been censored, despite their "right-wing" views or
lack of connection with Pirsig's work.
So even with the barrage of ad hominems directed at Krimel, Ian, Gav, DMB,
Marsha, Ron, Andre, John and myself (did I miss anyone?) I don't think Horse
would've considered this move were it not for the very real and very dangerous
threats and allusions to shooting people. It wasn't funny the first time, but
after being called a "thief" and "I got my gun waiting for you" a dozen times,
one starts to worry. As I said, Platt's been bombarding this forum with ad
hominems against "leftists" since the day I joined (and had the audacity to
mention Marx, look it up in the archives), and no one is calling for his
censoring.
Arlo,
Geez, I just didn't feel a physical threat from Nick. I love you
dearly, Arlo, but your rhetoric can be as down and dirty as Platt's
any day of the week. When the two of you go at it, I find you both
not worth reading. To my mind, you are both two sides of the same
coin!!! On the other hand, I love and respect you both and would
deeply miss either of you if you left the forum.
Marsha
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