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.
Ahh, what a wonderful way to call for civility. LOL
Okay, I have carefully considered your comments and have decided to stand by my term. Hitlery she is and will ever so remain...but thank you for your interest in civility!
THX. Sent to my email list. A more concise summary of good points than some of the longer, more unwieldly docs.
Especially ones who scream their heads off in public and murder their lovers and other close friends and associates!
And the ones who do that and repeatedly GET AWAY WITH IT are incredibly dangerous!
REMEMBER, IT WAS THE FRINGE GROUPS IN PREHITLER GERMANY WHO MOST CORRECTLY AND EARLIEST WARNED ABOUT WHO HE WAS AND WHAT HE'D DO.
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT AND VERY WELL SAID.
THX.
YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, CORRECT.
WHERE
can one get any part of her thesis????
Or even an accurate discussion of it????
imho,
IT AT LEAST
has A CHANCE
of WAKING
some of the
LIVING DEAD
up--a little.
My fellow Americans, I have just signed legislation to outlaw Islam. The bombing began in October 2001.
Why, CH, that sounds like hate crime talk to me.
Don't preach civility when we have enough of our politicos cozying up to muslim scumbags as though it was a mainstream religion desperately needed by America! Just a few minutes of the Imam of Harlem with a pillbox on his head mincing through meaningless platitudes at the opening of the RNC should have been enough to leave most of us gagging.
Don't preach civility when these perveted sadists behead innocent, bound victims!
Or perhaps you're talking about attacks on the Kerrys, the Clintons, or any of the dearth of evil nation destroyers that waddle through the halls of our government.
THX.
WELL SAID.
Quite true.
You're too kind Moonman. I refer to her as the Bitch of Kosovo.
CONGRATS.
I lay claim to SHRILLERY and DIMRAT.
and the long . . . her unroyal lowness, her hideous heinous--Bwitch Shrillery de Antoinette de Fosterizer de Machiavelli . . . .
etc.
with many borrowings from kind folks like you.
THANKS TONS!
OK, lemme say it a different way, just for you: DemocRATS
There... ya happy now? We are dealing with some unscrupulous folks on the other side. So we call 'em like we see 'em: RATS!
Illustrate your points with examples. Who do you know, or what statistics do you have, on perverted serial killers who were both dog lovers and vegetarians?
If that info were made available you'd no doubt discover that this combination will point to evildoers.
Guess you're not fond on my favorite term "Demopukes".
Insinuating that any FReeper is either one of those names you've tossed around is just plain pinheaded. (See that's a better term, especially if it fits.)
It's true that Hitlery hasn't murdered millions, but there are enough corpses littering the Clinton landscape to at least qualify them for serial killer class.
Every four years, my Republican friends say that this will be the election when the Jews go Republican, and, every time, the election results prove them wrong. They're like the boy who cried wolf. It makes me crazy. You want to say, 'Little boy, there's no wolf!' Enough already!
Well said.
Sigh......
ROTFLMAO!
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