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.
On the other hand it is just some people having a little fun.
I'll always believe that it only makes sense that the Rats started the most personal,vicious,and spiteful political attacks when this era began,and here's why-because the Republicans had quite a few years in the wilderness,not holding power in the Congress and in the statehouses.We had plenty of time to learn to live with being the opposition party and work from that position. The Reagan Revolution and then the Contract With America changed all that,and the Demo-rats stil haven't had time to accept it and acknowledge that they have no divine entitlement to be the majority party in this country. They are still in the stages of bitter disbelief and scrambling to regain what they consider to be rightfully theirs,no matter what the people say with their votes.
But it's OK,they have plenty of time(with a few glitches here and there no doubt) to adjust to the situation.They'll have four more years after November in which to adjust and resign themselves,that is,if they are at all capable of rational thought,and can admit that they are not a dynasty and that the politcal power in this country does not devolve upon them as by a mandate from Heaven. They,like Louis IV,believe,"l'etat,c'est moi". They are still fighting against the painful, to them, reality.
Until they do adjust,just as Republicans had to do for so long,it will be ever so much fun to prick their balloons of pomposity and snark on their pretentious though duplitious earnestness. It can't be helped, they just BEG to have pies thrown in their faces with their awesome arrogance and breath-taking delusion in believing that they OWN the right to rule and that it was stolen from them by the good voters of this country.
Thank you for your time.
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She is pro abortion. That is murder.
soooo.....we can't call the beast Hitlery but you can call fellow FReepers "maniacs or idiots"?
Mom ?? Is that you ? When did you start posting here ?
Murdering millions of people? Are you aware of the abortion statistics?
The Democrats are a bunch of doodie-heads.
What about Parasitic Media Dogs?
So does the Democratic National Committee and every other affiliated network news propagandist. Teachers also, as well as every other campus communist that are their spawn.
Wow... Talk about a God complex... That said. Please be advised to take that waggling finger and probe your prostate with it.
Technically, I think it's "Demonrat". You missed the "n".
I prefer Dimocrat. Is that better?
2. democRAT
3. McKane
Kinda looks like they're still silent.
Don't you know that you aren't supposed to start forming your philosophy until AFTER you join?
Newbie? I'm a 59 year old man who has voted for conservative candidates since I was old enough to vote (1966).
A "newbie" is someone who joined at least 5 minutes after you did.
I definitely wouldn't call John McCain a conservative...and as for being a loyal Republican, that's questionable as well.
If this is the biggest thing in your world that you are concerned about try another site.
Last time I checked it was a free country. And hope that it remains so with the re-election of GWB on November 2!
OK, alright, I won`t say Hitlery. How about Hildabeast?
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