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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (59695)	9/24/2002 4:25:35 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think the folks involved apologized as nicely as can be expected in this venue. is the very definition of snideness. Snideness is your very stock in trade. You don't know that? As for "making case for [my] POV," what you fail to get is that I don't have to do that. I am expressing it without the least interest in converting you to it. Those afflicted with PC are not convertible, because they confuse it with morality. Coug and you and CH are not the first people to try to tell us what our "POV" should be, in order to be correct and sensitive like you. There have been many, many before you! The world is full of self-important people all primed to tell others how to feel and not to feel and what to say and not to say and how to live and not to live and now, when to laugh and not to laugh. My very own Grandmother, when I told her our baby's brain was atrophied, said, doing her best to be helpful, "Don't think you have anything to be ashamed of." Being ashamed had never occurred to me, so I surely knew that; but I then also knew she thought perhaps I did. That was okay; it was her effort to be kind. However, your snidenesses on the subject, CH's, and coug's, have not been efforts to be kind, they have been simply efforts to gain superiority-points by instructing me how to act, and what to say, to be sensitive, like you. X, I spent two hours yesterday surrounded by people with Down's syndrome and those much unluckier, and by family members and others who love them, as I have spent so many other hours on so many other days of my life. "Make" you "agree" with me on this subject? Are you kidding? Do you think I care if you "agree" with me?! Your concern is to appear kind and sensitive, not to be kind and sensitive. The same goes for CH and for coug. As for the doubts you expressed about the SO, to which I happily send a check every year, they are pure PC and have nothing whatever to do with the only thing that matters, the joy of the participants.