Political correctness has officially run amuck here. Hate crime?
Pulllease.... Someone's sensibilities being bruised is not a hate
crime. Bill Robb, made a truthful statement in as offensive a manor as
he could. So what. I've put both Godfrey and Bill on my kill list at
different times for different reasons. Both can be total SOBs. Writing
something I personally find, stupid, arrogant, obnoxious, self
destructive, insulting, you name it isn't a crime. Save calling things
crimes that actually are.
On 10/24/2010 3:36 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
Boorish is putting it mildly. It DOES fall under hate crime (which includes insults and
verbal abuse). I think hate crime is a clear line that we don't traverse on this list.
Pompous gas bag is not a hate crime. Faggot is. I would prefer the way William F. Buckley
introduced Norman Mailer ("unalloyed narcissism"). Mailer even found it
charming.
Jeffery
On Oct 24, 2010, at 2:22 PM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
Shunning someone for boorish behavior isn't trampling on their rights. It's
merely depriving them of a platform from which to engage in that boorish
behavior ... a platform to which no one person is entitled.
-- Walt
why? isn't pompous twittery also an inherent trait? If you limit other
people's right to say things you don't like, someone else will limit your
right to say things they don't like. We all know where that leads.
Secondly, why do you limit it to inherent properties, whatever that means?
What if being gay turns out not to be an inherent property? Does that
suddenly make it ok to insult gay people? I don't think so.
B
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