When A+Bert said that I took it in stride. He hated everyone, so getting his attention that way was an early Free Republic badge of honor or something. I miss the guy!
Anyone who’s been here as long as you and I have been threatened and shouted at disrespectfully...
The question is, how do we react, and how should we react?
Over the past 26 years I’ve gotten nasty a few times with a few people here and regret it. I lost my head. That says more about me than I like. Since I can’t take those words back, I can only go forward trying not to be like that again.
Jim addresses this is a add on thread, here: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4243242/posts
As he says, our civility—or lack of it—is up to us.
I take it with a grain of salt, and par for the course for overbearing, and arrogant people. I've been verbally abused by far better people in the past, and none of them were on FR. And at least back then I got paid a good salary to put up with it.