Posted on 08/30/2004 10:05:23 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
I enjoy this forum, but lately I've noticed a troubling tendency for posters here to descend into horrible and immature name-calling. Such name-calling, and extremism without reason does nothing but harm our cause. It turns off casual lurkers and readers of this forum. It provides fodder for this forum to be demonized and non-respected elsewhere. Below I provide a few examples. I call on Freepers to stop using such terms voluntarily. If that doesn't work, I call on the moderators to warn, if not censor, posters who use such terms. I realize that Democratic Underground uses even more ridiculous terms sometimes. However, your opponents' choice to frolack in waste does not provide an excuse to do likewise. Rather, it provides an opportunity to rise above, and show one's intellectual and moral superiority. Without more, I present a few examples of the type of garbage I'm talking about. I call on fellow posters to add their own.
1) "Hitlery" -- I dislike Hillary Clinton's politics, and what I know of her personality. However, nothing she has said or done (including her love-fest with Suha Arafat) justifies comparing her to one of the worst monsters in all history. Doing so not only demeans the Holocaust, and all the war dead of WWII, it makes a mockery of this forum to allow it to be posted.
2) "Demorat" -- This is just stupid. Calling your opponent a rodent does nothing to promote conservatism or libertarianism. It does everything to make posters and this forum look like intellectual infants, prone to tantrums and incapable of rational debate. We disagree with Democrats. We should not dehumanize them, or think them so below us that we need not engage them in debate and triumph.
3) "McInsane" & etc. -- John McCain is a conservative, loyal Republican. Indeed, in some areas -- such as controlling spending -- he's far more conservative then Bush. However, he is also a mavarick who doesn't tow the party line -- and, in my opinion, sometimes perhaps puts his principles below his desire to win applauds from the media. That being said, his ACU rating is strong, and he has put legitimate personal disagreements with Bush behind him to support what's best for his party -- and, more importantly -- his country. Feel free to critique McCain. Feel free to disagree with him when he criticizes fellow Republicans or takes an odd liberal stand. However, do not resort to petty name-calling -- especially not name calling that implies he lacks mental faculties, and/or is evil. It's just not right.
So I have written. I hope that a silent majority of Freepers agree with me here.
Don't spam the threads please.
BTW, if I'm civil, won't I get thrown out of TNLC?
Some one give me a straight answer, ya' F*****ing pack of RINO, lefty trolls!
And nun of ya kin spell or use english gud, neither:
or try to conquer the world
Have you read her college thesis. Have you read her commencement address?
I would also suggest that you see her "for the good of the people" speech.
Have you forgotten her health care policy?
Have you seen her last speech on ethics? She just asks for the mocking she deserves.
How about the terrorists she had her husband pardon?
How about her huggy time with the Mrs. Arafat? And, the love fest the Billary duo had with Yassir Arafat?
All you need to disparage that woman are the facts.
LOL.
Like your version, too!
LOL.
Turgid prose can become rather tedious, don't you think? A touch of bombastic rhetoric serves to leaven the discourse, in my opinion.
Lighten up.
ABSOLUTELY.
I have a serious question.
WHY ON EARTH is that sooooo hard for soooooo many to see???
To me, it's as plain as her ugly face.
It gushes out every pore of her body and being.
Why isn't it that plain to everyone?
NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE?
Deluded by demonic forces and their own rebellions and selfish appetites and lusts?
What is it, really?
LOL.
Fitting, apt!
I admire your attempt, but there are some who never grow up.
The relative anonymity of the Web allows a lot of people who ought to know better the freedom to throw names around.
I think deep down you know. As it is written some have "eyes to see and ears to hear".
Some are blinded for their own protection. Ultimately our Heavenly Father will take care of his own. Remember it is not a battle of "flesh and blood" we are to be armed for.
I agree.
"Hitlery" is silly.
I've always been partial to the siumplicity of "$#&%^@* bitch" myself.
LOL
Dang! I see you really stepped on it.
I see her as deliberately and consciously in bed with all the lesbo puppet masters she can Machiavelli around with.
I believe she's likely even an active and conscious worshipper of satan himself.
I have 0.00000000% doubt that she's consciously aware of the coming satanic world government and eagerly wanting as high a position in it as she can get.
I believe she's not only sell her own soul to the devil, she'd sell her parent's souls, and every other living thing within miles around if it would result in more power, status, etc. for HER.
If she had a button with which to wipe out all the VRWC and any other people who got in her way--she'd use it in a flash. Shoot, she'd use it in her sleep.
She probably couldn't build concentration death camps fast enough to suit her.
Perhaps you gather correctly that I do NOT think she's nice or a lady.
AW,,I want to frolack.
Oh, I think her use of the FBI files and her
evident FOSTERIZING
is concrete evidence enough for me.
Perhaps more importantly to me, she just reeks of evil. Even from this distance.
Then there's EVERY BIT of anecdotal evidence of patriotic honest people who get close to her is that she's evil more or less incarnate.
But
DIMRAT
gets em on two scores!
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