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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (15661)	4/23/2003 11:45:08 PM
From: Edscharp	Respond to of 21614

marion, "Criticism is not the same as intimidation." What do you call what you and others do on this board? " Perhaps it would be useful here if we defined 'intimidate' as it appears in my handy dandy Reader's Digest Encyclopedic Dictionary *intimidate - tr. v.* 1. to make timid; frighten 2. To discourage, silence, or inhibit by or as if by threats. - See synonym at threaten.** In short, 'intimidation' is an implied threat. What threat are we making when we criticize your posts? What threat do I make when I say that Tim Robbins is a jerk and I'm not going to watch any of his movies anymore? The only explicit threat I've seen uttered on this message board was by one of the anti-war group who suggested he would put a .44 magnum to my head. His post was deleted by SI and he has since stopped posting.