08-30-2021, 01:33 AM
(08-30-2021, 12:30 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Your post seems to very intentionally comes across as "Here is bad liberal doing the same thing I have been fighting with bad liberal Dill about".
Is Dill a bad liberal? I raised a behavior I find abhorrent. You are certainly correct that Dill has defended said behavior, on numerous occasions. That, however, was not the purpose of the thread. The purpose was to highlight this behavior and point out how wrong, divisive and destructive, it is. As I said, if you plant a flag be prepared to defend it.
Quote:The only purpose of this thread seems to be for you to use it as a vehicle to attack Dill, considering that an actual elected official did the very thing you are complaining about in this thread, but there was no mention of him (presumably because said politician was a Republican so you can't compare him to Dill as easily as the guy who was Sec of Edu over 5 years ago).
This is a very poor point. As I already stated, am I to make a new thread to address every single such instance of this behavior? Am I to know of every such instance when it occurs? I just had a lengthy back and forth on this very subject. A back and forth that saw no interjection from other parties. If you're so concerned about these comparisons, and to flip your inquiry back on yourself, why did you not raise these very concerns then? Did you not know about it? Did you not care? If so, why do you care now?
Quote:Would you have started this thread if you weren't beefing with Dill?
Absolutely. As I've stated throughout the years, I despise these types of comparisons. Did the recent argument have the topic fresh on my mind, absolutely. But don't pretend this is some new cause celeb for me.
Quote:Probably not, and that's the kind of dumb shit that gets this place shut down. Don't start threads for the sole purpose of calling out another member if it means the rest of us can suffer as a result. At the very least, be clever in your mockery so that we know who you're ragging on without you explicitly saying it. I know witty mockery isn't foreign to you lol.
An interesting argument, "call someone out" but don't be so obvious about it. Is your concern with the conduct or its overtness? If it is the latter, then I don't think you stand on very firm ethical grounds. There's a lot of "dumb shit" that gets this place "shut down". One of them is ignoring behavior in some that you claim to dislike in others. So, given your stated dislike of such comparisons, I expect to see your condemnations of such when they are made in the future.
