This was said by you guys about a fellow freeper. Comments were also made about his parents. I was responding to your vacuous ad hominem attacks. Therefore I wrote:
"This is so entirely typical of you evos. Mouth, mouth, mouth, switch off brain, pass judgement. Small minded folks like you don't simply ignore the truth, you suppress the truth."
And it is typical, is it not? I noticed your first comment on this thread was an ad hominem. Usually one warms up a bit before throwing the insults. When someone starts insulting a person's parents or upbringing because his clip is empty, it's time for that person to go back to the druggie threads.
"This is so entirely typical of you evos. Mouth, mouth, mouth, switch off brain, pass judgement. Small minded folks like you don't simply ignore the truth, you suppress the truth."
And it is typical, is it not?
No, it isn't. I note, however, that your own passage above is pretty typical for *you*. As I've already documented, you have no reluctance to let loose with such things as, 'hypocritical', 'dishonest', 'biased', 'unscientific', 'illogical', 'manifest paranoia', 'superstitious', 'impervious to reason', 'no training in logic whatsoever', 'absurd', 'sophomoric', 'intellectually cowardly'...
The list goes on. But these debates generally get pretty spirited and personal, on *both* sides. If you can't stand the heat without starting to whine about how mean people are being, go find a nice thread about Mel Gibson or something -- because you're only looking silly when you complain about folks making jabs, because you're one of the most enthusiastic namecallers.
If you were a model of patient restraint and understanding, then you might have some moral high ground to complain about anyone else. But since you're not -- since you're one of the more self-righteous namecallers I've seen on other threads -- I'm not about to sit here and accept any abuse from you for my using the word "ignorance".
And I'm not about to let you get away with this little bit of transparent disingenuousness:
I noticed your first comment on this thread was an ad hominem.
Oddly enough, your powers of observation weren't good enough to note that the PERSON I WAS RESPONDING TO had been less than polite, and I was responding exactly in kind -- partly as a way to suggest that he reconsider his tone.
Furthermore, your amazing powers of observation failed to grasp that EVEN AFTER I POINTED IT OUT TO YOU in my previous post, and I quote:
I was responding to someone who started his post with, "This is absolute garbage" -- I was responding to him in kind.So, how did you manage to spot my "ad hominem" (technically not correct, I was describing his claims as "ignorance" just as he described other claims as "garbage", both are a comment on what was said, not the person specifically), but failed to spot *his*? And why do you seem blissfully unaware of your own track record of flinging slurs?
Usually one warms up a bit before throwing the insults.
I got warmed up when I read a post that incorrectly described something as "garbage" -- but you've missed that *twice* now.
When someone starts insulting a person's parents or upbringing because his clip is empty, it's time for that person to go back to the druggie threads.
If I ever do that, let me know. Until then, take your straw man and your misplaced smug self-righteousness elsewhere. I will not be lectured on my manners by a hypocrite who himself has a hair-trigger for insulting putdowns.