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To: wouldntbprudent
I would hardly equate disagreeing with people to the point that they felt defeated in the arena of ideas and took their marbles and went home with petty purges by the site administration.

Naturally, you revise history. The coven was very good at ganging up on their opponents, starting flame wars and then getting the target banned.

So few feel any sympathy for them getting a taste of their own medicine.

211 posted on 08/07/2007 7:09:57 AM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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To: dirtboy
starting flame wars and then getting the target banned.

This is liberal orthodoxy if I've ever heard it. Nothing but some version of "the devil made me do it," "the man made me do it," "root causes made me do it," "it's all society's fault," blah blah blah blah. If the "target" engaged in conduct that was offensive enough that the mods---not the "coven," mind you---banned him, what caused the ban? Uh, the "target's" own conduct. Even if someone does---oh, boo hoo---start a flame war against you, is your response outside your control and, therefore, is whether or not you commit conduct that could get you banned outside your control? Conservatism is about taking personal responsibility. The "coven" did not commit the conduct that got the "target" banned, nor did the "coven" have the authority to ban anyone. That would be the mods. But, unless the JR and the mods are total nincompoops (is that what you are saying?), a person gets banned for his *personal* conduct on the forum. Right?

218 posted on 08/07/2007 9:30:06 AM PDT by wouldntbprudent (HONK IF YOU'VE SACKED TROY SMITH.)
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