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Listen, Kay. You are of course free to believe that you are being misrepresented based on a partial reading, in either sense, of what you have written, and it is of course rotten to be told that you appear to be advancing the cause of prejudice, but a good way to avoid that might be, next time you see a thread and think that the important point is not whatever the thread is about but how much worse something else (which, so far, has been done by people who happen not to be white) is than whatever the thread is about, perhaps just not posting at all? Or, as a thought experiment, try instead having a think about what the thread is actually about and contributing your thoughts on that instead? I think that would help.
Righto, Haus. Our difference seems to lie with what we each feel is relevant to these various threads. I believe that things should usually be treated in a wide context, you'd prefer usually to treat them in a tight context; fair enough. You're probably right for most threads, although I think there's a place for wide comparisons and I naturally prefer to use them.
Anyway, that's a reasonable and civilised difference to have; I'm happy to accept a "please confine yourself to the matter at hand" rebuke, so long as it's not accompanied by "you racist swine you". Pax?
To Stoat and all, my apologies that this has dragged on.
To suggest something relevant to this thread, the lack of search tools is a bit of a pain on Barbelith. Did Tom hand-code the board or something? Kudos if he did, but I'd love a good search facility. |
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