Hmm just how far does the lack of ridicule go?
For example if someone admired Henry Kissingers and his politics would it be unacceptable to say "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal"?
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Typo Boy - Sep 19, 2002 12:07:51 pm PDT #94 of 10001
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Jen - Sep 19, 2002 3:35:31 pm PDT #95 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
I don't think that would be unacceptable. I *would* find, "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal, you moron, and if you really knew what you were talking about, you'd feel differently," an unacceptable thing to say.
In the former, you're simply expressing your opinion, which happens to be different from someone else's. In the latter, you're denigrating a person for what they believe and insinuating that they're simply ignorant.
Either way--only three of us expressed interest, so I think it's dead in the water.
P.M. Marc - Sep 19, 2002 3:49:53 pm PDT #96 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm going to go out on a limb and state that when *I* post about "ignoring disturbing political talk", it's almost always out of concern that things are getting too heated. YIDPTMV
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 3:51:19 pm PDT #97 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I'm going to go out on a limb and state that when *I* post about "ignoring disturbing political talk", it's almost always out of concern that things are getting too heated. YIDPTMV
Yeah. Or if it's detoured into Nixon/Kissinger slash.
Jen - Sep 19, 2002 3:52:08 pm PDT #98 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Aaaarrggh! My eyes!
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2002 10:13:46 pm PDT #99 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yeah. Or if it's detoured into Nixon/Kissinger slash.
Don't we have a policy of no real person slash, 'cause that would take of it, right?
Elena - Sep 19, 2002 10:58:59 pm PDT #100 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 11:00:09 pm PDT #101 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 11:02:59 pm PDT #102 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Trudy Booth - Sep 19, 2002 11:41:32 pm PDT #103 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I'd imagine we could walk the line between "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" and " YOU are a war criminal".