Politics and Religion

[Dill]

(03-04-2021, 01:43 PM)hollodero Wrote: Didn't mean to say you were calling him dumb.

You talked about missing examples of bullying though, as if there were none to be had. I disagree with that. On the grounds that quite some people, including you, have a tendency to paint others as being unintelligent. And I can very well imagine that some avoid these parts of the board for that very reason, for a flood of disrespect they need to expect, or have experienced.

There are also instances where people are painted as racist, which can amount to bullying as well, especially if the accusation is far-fetched. Case in point, I think you once bullied Mickeypoo.

I don't even mean to single anyone out... it's the climate. The bullying one might see, imho with some extent of validity, is mainly due to a liberal majority here. If there were a conservative majority, things would not be any better in that regard.

Point of clarification: Fred was asking for examples, not of bullying per se, but of posters who actually left the forum because of bullying, as SSF claims. If you haven't provided any, there are still none to be had. Only SSF's speculation, which grounds his "liberal bullies" narrative.

Fred is asking for examples because SSF regularly accuses other posters of statements and behaviors which, shall we say, are not supported by the record. When asked for proof, for examples, quotations, whatever, he does not provide it, but keeps circulating the accusations anyway, as if repetition makes them true.     No   one    else     does     this.

And actually, you are "singling out" by omission, by choice of whom to "call out" for bullying among the available candidates.

So no surprise that your post was promptly endorsed by the poster who most frequently and without provocation denigrates the intelligence and honesty of others. Not "paints," not "thinly disguised"--but outright. Thread after thread after thread, including this one. There's the better example of your "flood of disrespect."

And your post was not simply endorsed, but folded into his narrative of liberal bullies responsible for driving poor conservatives from the forum: you and he now, positioned against those toxic others out there--"It's liable to get to the point in which only a handful of posters will even deign to respond to each other."

I don't think you want to join any group. And you haven't. And you've not been demeaning others. But when someone who personally and repeatedly attacks other posters, then wants to cast THEM as a mob of bullies threatening the good order of the forum, I do expect you to recognize that dynamic.