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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (30581)	3/8/2005 5:06:02 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

We are almost in complete agreement. I can understand how & why harsh retorts can come about when others have lowered themselves into the gutter & pretend to claim the high ground in complete oblivion to their obvious hypocrisy. That they compound it by engaging in this inappropriate activity after they have silenced the dissenters, then attack them so they cannot respond or defend themselves does exasperate things. It only makes things worse when they falsely claim to be inclusive. And proclaiming their "feelings" to be rock solid fact while stifling all contrary facts & evidence is certainly infuriating enough in & of itself to elicit harsh retorts. Unfortunately, any harsh rhetoric, no matter how accurate it may be, only provides fodder for them to use against us. They will never see their own obvious hypocrisy when we crawl in the gutter with them. All they will ever see is proof they were always right(eous) & we really deserved to be banned..... regardless of the facts. Look, I've been guilty of engaging in it here too. It certainly feels good to stick it to them given the circumstances. But the more we engage in that type of activity, the more we look just like them. And I do not want to be perceived to be no different than a bunch of name calling, vicious, mean spirited, back stabbing, closed minded, groupthinging, exclusionary, stiflers of open, honest debate. JMHO