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Appreciate your follow-up post. Of course, this wasn't the bulk, or even the worst of the nastiness in here yesterday. I found the virulency of some not only repulsive, but also the real-time embodiment of the very worst sort of stereotyping leveled at FReepers by leftist thugs--who, as another poster indicated, are the last ones who should throw stones.

Yeah, I realize that emotions are high. I also know that we can be prone to assume the worst, because past experience has led us to that. I also know that it is much easier for some to project outward than look inward. The upshot is that, often times, many blithely provide the enemy with the very ammo they seek, without a seeming thought to the potential for blowback.

Drudge may have recklessly started this snowball rolling, but there were way too many FReepers who were all to happy to kick it further and faster down the hill. In other words, she didn't make people in here appear to be presumptuous fools. That was the other self-inflicted wound in this case.

Of course, why would anyone listen to me? I've been told I'm a troll. Apparently having an aversion to engaging in self-defeating auto-mutilation carries that consequence.

Breaks my heart...really.

"The upshot is that, often times, many blithely provide the enemy with the very ammo they seek, without a seeming thought to the potential for blowback."

Exactly. It's like loading a gun and handing it to your enemy.

We are fighting a war of ideas. We want to demonstrate to our followers, our enemies and especially to spectators that we are rational and moral people. We want to show that we have the best set of ideas. This is our power and weaponry.

It is frustating when you try to warn a fellow soldier he is about to shoot himself in the foot to see him become so enraged he turns the gun on you.