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Falconer - given that it took me a fair while even to notice events in this thread, it seems pretty poor form to suggest a club mentality, rather than, say, a bored response to an unmerited ad hominem piece of threadrot. However, if you genuinely believe that this is the case, why not gather together the huddled masses and plan out a series of threads so devastatingly insightful that the decadent cliquesters are reduced to speechless admiration?
Like the use of the surname - v. good; dismissive, but not overtly so.
Favourite other phrases: "huddled masses", "decadent cliquesters" - does it ever occur you occasionally sound like a bit of a prick, Haus?
Incidentally, I very much doubt that you'll get a new consensus word for troll, but you're welcome to keep trying. Trolling is a practice that I suspect you and I, Haus, have been guilty of, although perhaps, respectively, considering ourselves as an agent provocateur. Thing is, I like debate - if that makes me a 'troll', so be it.
I suggest club, or more correctly (as was pointed out) clique, mentality, because I see the same names, the ones who were here first! ('old Barbelith'?) pouncing on single posters ('new Barbelith'?). Jack Fear jumped on me, and then ran away after finding I had the stomach for it, when I first started posting in the comics forum. He, as you've done here with Schwantz, failed to address any of several valid points raised contra his argument. The pair of you go about your posting business at Barbelith with an extraordinarily supercilious manner, not always counterbalanced with the requisite amount of wit and insight necessary - though I'm willing to admit it's there on several occasions; you're both clearly smart guys. Why then, do you seem to find it necessary to belittle other, newer (younger? less public-school educated?) posters? It seems remarkably churlish.
As for PC, it is you, Haus, isn't it, that's so willing to point out, circuitously or otherwise, the racism of others? Like the 21st century liberal cry that's equivalent to 17th century "Atheist!"; no-one (here) can be it - but we can project it upon others. That's what I'd describe as symptomatic of sufferers of the PC 'meme', if you will, as I'm sure we've more than cleared up the 'movement' problem. Which is precisely ... fuck ... all like Zionism, Communism, blah, blah, blah - and I'm fairly sure no-one ever suggested otherwise. |
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