[WikiEN-l] Intense language

[Sheldon Rampton]

On Jun 1, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Jayjg wrote:

> Lengthy posts accusing me of "framing", "trapping people in this loop
> of hate speech", "obfuscating" , "advocating censorship" etc. cannot
> help but "make it personal". I think if you view this dispassionately
> you will agree.

I don't happen to remember using "obfuscating," but maybe I did. In  
any case, the phrases you've listed all expressed the way I felt  
about your own rhetoric. I don't see that as "making it personal."  
Making it personal would involve calling you a "jerk" or an "asshole"  
or making disparaging references to your ethnicity, family,  
profession or some other personal attribute. If you're saying that  
you think my own rhetoric was too abrasive, I can see how you might  
feel that way. From my point of view, it seemed that you were the one  
who first escalated the rhetoric, and I was responding. You evidently  
think it was the other way around. If you're right, I apologize. If  
I'm right, you owe me a beer.

I don't see a lot of value in rehashing this further. We've both had  
our say.

Standing down now...backing away from the knife...

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