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To: garbanzo

Well, you might be a bit "sensitive" perhaps. If the word bothers you, you might want to check your "thinking" vs. your "feeling". Trying to convince someone of the "rightness" of your beliefs might require that you hurt a few "feelings" now and then. If you cannot bring yourself to man up, then I suggest you might want to follow a different path. Your fight suggests that you will not actually fight. I don't need you in my fighting position. Seek life elsewhere where your feelings are more appreciated, you might be happier with the kumbayya type of folk.


301 posted on 03/03/2007 5:33:28 PM PST by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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To: alarm rider
People need to see the broader issue: there is something culturally flawed when one can't speak plainly without ordinary people wetting their pants.

In any case, it was not a true "name calling". If she had paused to call him a fagot in some kind of formal debate, then that would be silly name-calling. But she didn't- she used the term correctly and in her speech.

The "outrage" being expressed (largely false outrage meant only to impress oneself in the eyes of others) is that she broke PC Law.

It was a thought-crime... one that frequently gets everyone from Christians to Satanists beating themselves in comical, guilt-ridden penance.

302 posted on 03/03/2007 7:11:27 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: alarm rider
Trying to convince someone of the "rightness" of your beliefs might require that you hurt a few "feelings" now and then.

In what universe? Ask yourself, how many people are going to decide they favor limited government or vote Republican because of Coulter's stupid stunt ? I've been at FR for a long long time and that more or less means I have very thick skin. So I'm not concerned in the slightest about getting hurt by anybody's debate. I just find name-calling useless other than as a means of making people feel better about themselves really cheaply.

304 posted on 03/03/2007 8:27:50 PM PST by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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