07-04-2020, 03:06 PM
(07-04-2020, 02:37 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I know it's fun to give Fred shit, but he did have a point. It is hard to draw that line with opinions. Especially when there is a strong wave of people, and this is on both sides, not understanding the difference between fact and opinion and people dismissing objective facts as opinion or "fake news." I'm not going to lie, this is the the thing that will get me to the point of a condescending tone in my posts 100% of the time.
We give Fred shit because he's a large part of the problem but he refuses to acknowledge it. While I get your point it's hard to stay civil when you have a group tag teaming you with belittling, rude and condescending responses. There's a reason you have never been suspended and certain other people we just mentioned have, multiple times, more times than me in fact. Bfine is correct in his assessment in the post above.
If we want a place for civil discourse of varying viewpoints then we can't subsequently create an entirely hostile atmosphere for those who differ from the majority opinion. Only one poster from this board deserved that type of group response, Lucie/GA9/Tommy C, he posted, and stated, flat out bigoted posts and statements. Even then certain people went way over the line with him, offering to breed his underage daughters and such. It's the same type of thing you see in real life media, people deplore the incivility of Trump and then feel free to unleash incivility at people who support him. Either it's a problem or it's not. If you think it's a problem then don't engage in it, no matter how disagreeable you may find the position of the person you're talking to.
