Reply #105: And this is where you are wrong again [View All]

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You said:

this comment "Cracker Barrell has an open discrimination policy when it comes to hiring gays, i.e. they won't, so thanks for giving the homophobes your good liberal dollars" with the headline 'thanks for supporting gays' shouldn't have elicited such a crazy response

Yes, it should have - because it was a rude, one-for-all statement: you tacitly implied that nini was anti-gay with your statement. You could very easily have found a much more tactful way to say the same thing without being so insulting. But, instead, you opted for the easy kill.

And then you said:

but it isn't the first time I've been hit with a reaction like that...

Perhaps it's worth asking yourself if it might be your attack posture that's eliciting the responses... I don't know, since I don't remember seeing anything else by you here, so I have no past history of you to make any judgment. But, if you are getting reactions like this at other things, that might mean it's time to evaluate your own attitude and see if maybe you ARE being to in-your-face. Like I said, I don't know; but your post to nini definitely was in-your-face, and it was rude.

and then you said:

I find it hard to understand from that one sentence why people would spasm so badly.

Again, if you can't understand why, then you might want to think about it; and then think about your own behavior, and how maybe what you said to nini WAS over-the-top enough to warrant people responding in the way they did.

I can take a response from who I originally post to, but when other people come screaming out of the woodwork and start piling on, then you know something from the land of internet dynamics is going on which is why I posted the flamewars link.

You are utterly wrong here - there was nothing of "internet dynamics" or group dynamics happening here, at least not on my end. I barely know nini, and have no personal investment in her at all. I came to her defense, and others came to her defense, because we saw someone being mercilessly and unfairly beat upon, and we felt like calling the perpetrator (that's you) on the carpet about his/her behavior. Which we did. Which you then very paranoically ascribed to some tremendous underground group effort on our part. What - you've never seen people come to the defense of the unfarily maligned or the innocents being attacked? I don't understand why you keep thinking that every one criticizing you for your ill-stated condemnation of nini is some sort of orchestrated, group effort. It isn't - we just happen to all like to call out the bullshit when we see it, and to call people on their illogical and rude behavior.

And please also note that I did not read anything that is now in that deleted subthread - I have no idea what transpired, though it sounds like a lot of rudeness went around. So if you have been judging me based on what happened in that subthread, please don't: I wasn't in it, I have no idea what was said, other than your references to the f-bombs. So I am coming to no defense of anything said there; nor am I coming to any acceptance of what was said there. Since I don't know what it was. It was deleted well before I came back and posted anything.