Robert again (gosh) : I don't understand why
Anthere is making personal
attacks
towards me. I was disturbed by Entmoot of
Troll's
anti-Jewish remarks. Anthere's response to this was to
ignore the content of my post, make a defense of EofT, and
then attack me. What should one conclude from her
behaviour?
Anthere was putting it all into context - the context of Robert - who has a
long history of crying wolf - "anti-Semitism" - "anti-Semitism"...
(Its
old. I'll write up a psychological profile of you if you like.) There was
nothing anti-Semitic in the statement - (which was obvious ) so Anthere made
the logical leap of explaining the "why," rather than just the "what."
And
the "why" seems to be more with you Robert.
Funny, huh?
Listen: I will make it simple. When you have an
intellectual disagreement with someone, don't descend to
racial or ethnic stereotypes or slurs. We don't want bigots
here. Is this so outrageous?
This is agreeable. The problem is Robert that - for a great many
reasons -its not clear to us that your *not a bigot, Robert. Here, in fact,
what your attempting is - as Toby (I think) alluded to - is to provoke
Godwin's Law. Youre by far the quickest to call people the name "bigot" -
etc... (Which reminds us of another law - "He who smelt it - dealt it.")
Further, if someone is unable to clearly express what
they
mean in English, then what they are writing here is almost
useless.
This is wrong - even a broken, unintellegible stub can be transformed. Your
wanting to oust people for not writing English well is at the very least,
elitist - and smacks of the same kind of bigotry you espouse countering.
At least your tone seems more reasonable. I dont want you to leave - youre a
valuable point of view. You simply need to tone down the acrimony. Others
have told you this - I'm sure your Mother probably has too - at one point or
another. I know mine has.
Xiao xin!
-SM