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Posted by Mitchell on January 13, 2003, at 19:16:28
"This is one of the 2 Jewish assholes who heckled me during a speech."
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20021230/msgs/2175.htmlCivil society offers better ways to articulate anger.
In general practice, rules of civil behavior are the same whether a person is speaking in a second or a third person voice.
Insults spoken privately are of questionable civic value. A person does not need to hear an insult to be insulted. Insults hurled publicly at an individual are little different from insults spoken directly to the person.
Polite society, and civil law, shuns insults spoken about a person as thouroughly as it shuns insults spoken to the person. If I write here that any person is an asshole, I slander the person.
Posted by Lou Pilder on January 14, 2003, at 11:42:56
In reply to When are insults civil?, posted by Mitchell on January 13, 2003, at 19:16:28
Mitchell,
Thank you very much for your post.You wrote, [...if I write here that any person is an asshole, I slander the person...]
Could you clarify if you are saying that since the poster associated "assholes" with jews, that you percieve that the poster is then saying that other jews are "assholes" and not just the "2" ? and thearfor "slanders" other jews and not just them?
Best regards,
Lou
Posted by Mitchell on January 14, 2003, at 20:29:32
In reply to Re: When are insults civil? » Mitchell, posted by Lou Pilder on January 14, 2003, at 11:42:56
Lou,
The best source for clarification about whatever the person meant who put those two words aside each other would be the person who wrote the post.
You might agree that the connotation of word, like its biological counterpart, tends to foul most things it gets near.
> Mitchell,
> Thank you very much for your post.You wrote, [...if I write here that any person is an asshole, I slander the person...]
> Could you clarify if you are saying that since the poster associated "assholes" with jews, that you percieve that the poster is then saying that other jews are "assholes" and not just the "2" ? and thearfor "slanders" other jews and not just them?
> Best regards,
> Lou
Posted by Lou Pilder on January 14, 2003, at 20:33:05
In reply to Re: When are insults civil? » Lou Pilder, posted by Mitchell on January 14, 2003, at 20:29:32
Mitchell,
Makes sense!
Lou
Posted by ZeeZee on January 16, 2003, at 15:32:14
In reply to When are insults civil?, posted by Mitchell on January 13, 2003, at 19:16:28
The sad part about all of this is I've read PBC's and blocks given out for very benign comments that for the life of me didn't come close to being "uncivil". The fact that Dr. Bob doesn't hear how blatanly uncivil these anti-semetic comments are and is so willing to work with this individual is just one more example of the lack of equitable administration of this board.
I've noticed some recently blocked individuals have failed to return to this board. I wouldn't doubt they too became tired of what appears to be arbitrary enforcement of policy.
This is the end of the thread.
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