Posted on 10/11/2004 4:08:02 PM PDT by birbear
Just a quick question to the Moderators. Why was the Christopher Reeve thread last night pulled after 400+ posts? And why was today's thread locked after just 5 posts?
It sucks to be involved in a discussion and then have the thread pulled or locked, with the reason being, "Pulled" or "Locked". I understand you guys have a job to do, but can't you type in a few more characters to give us a "Why" it was pulled. I mean, there's a place for "Reason" there anyway, why not use it?
The comment in question was posted 5:18am.
You're supposed to be respectful of the dead, at least for a while. Hillary is still alive, so we don't have to be respectful, when she dies we'll be nice for a year or so because it's the polite thing to do.
> ... wondering if an actual cause of death has been announced.
To answer my own question, for the record:
"Reeve, a quadriplegic for the last nine years of
his life who vowed that he would one day walk again,
died Sunday of complications from an infection caused
by a bedsore."
It was by John Edwards, the trial lawyer, who opined to a crowd today, that had President Bush not objected to pre-natal Stem Cells, Reeve would be out of his wheelchair.
Who is Christopher Reeves and why should we care if he is alive or dead??
OTOH, it doesn't take a Kreskin to predict that one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1241551/posts?q=1&&page=51
Charles Krauthammer said on FNC that Edwards was giving false hope to wheelchair bound people by exploiting Reeve's death.
There's no "double standard" at all. Hillary has earned every erg of public opprobrium directed at her. She tried to and almost succeeded in hijacking 1/5th of the US economy on a socialist pie-in-the-sky "health care" plan, FBI files on political enemies wound up in her private quarters in the 1990s (and the contents of same were used against high-level conservative politicians), and she has never met a socialistic wealth redistribution plan she doesn't like.
Reeve earned no such scorn during his life. You still get to openly, legally advocate for distasteful things without being called Hitler or Stalin for it like some Freepers did.
Who gives a RATS @ss what the DU says or thinks?
With respect to Christopher Reeves, a number of Freepers -- including myself -- refuse to lionize or martyr a man who crusaded for partial birth abortion AT ANY PRICE in order to facilitate a "cure."
Are you seriously trying to compare Christopher Reeve's plight and activism with Hillary Clinton's physical attributes?
That's pretty shallow.
I saw a Christopher Reeve thread earlier today which had a nbr. of posts deleted by the Mods. I found that curious but I think that people need to keep death in it's proper perspective.
That is to say in the case of someone who held political beliefs which are contrary to one's own it should simply be let go at some point. I do not feel that way about terrorists or persons who support terrorism or certain other acts but on some level disagreements should be let go once a person has moved on.
I had someone quite close to me die unexpectedly a few years back. At some point that person's reputation was being slammed by persons who had what I considered to be a bad attitude.
A wise person told me that the deceased one was beyond those things now, and that was one of the most profound things that I have ever heard said. Christopher Reeve should be allowed to rest in peace. Slamming him after his death is immature and not worthy of posters on the FR.com.
And let's all remember that CK is a wheel-chair-bound medical doctor (psychiatry, I believe).
He is in a unique position to know. Besides that fact that he has a gifted mind and studied to be a medical doctor, he is also in a wheelchair, and has been since he was 22 years old.
I was trying to post about it last night but all the threads kept getting locked.
On the local news, they said Reeve had a bedsore which became infected, then the infection went to his blood. He had an overwhelming sepsis and went into cardiac arrest Saturday. They must have revived him. He was taken to a New York hospital where he was in a coma until he died Sunday.
At least that's the story I heard.
Krauthammer wrote that he had been in a wheelchair from a spinal injury since age 22 [diving accident]. "For 28 years I've been hearing that a cure is just a few years away. Being a doctor, I have discounted such nonsense."
A general rule of thumb is that if a public figure just died, it's probably tacky to make fun of them as if they were around to defend themselves.
If Hillary Clinton (god forbid) had passed away this weekend, the exact same post might be inappropriate on Monday that was perfectly acceptible on Friday.
This is compounded by the fact that Christopher Reeve was a lot of things to a lot of people. He was a hard left political activist. He was a character on South Park. He was a hollywood movie star. He was Superman.
I saw a lot of confusion on the threads because someone who was obviously a comic book fan would say post something that any comic book fan would recognize as tasteful and respectful, only to get slammed by someone who refuses to believe that any freeper even read a comic book past the age of 6.
Beyond this, some of the posts really were disrespectful, and others were probably DU trolls trying to provoke a headline-grabbing quote to "prove" what a bunch of hateful people freepers are.
You must be very sensitive to open debate.
I see only one tasteless post on this whole thread.
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