Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...
pcg <[email protected]>
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> Not being snarky: I don't know what that means. I've seen it before, just > don't know what it's supposed to convey. > > http://gameinformer.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserF > iles/00.00.21.98.22.Attached+Files/0878.DoubleFacePalm.jpg > > ***Means putting your face in your hands in abject frustration. A > representation of speechlessness. > > ***In this case I was just amazed at the apparent length you will go to > rationalize this. Ah, gotcha. I'm not sure how I'm going to any lengths to rationalize anything. You said people were accused of being racists just for *asking* about Obama's birthplace. I asked you to provide evidence of that, and instead you provided examples of people accusing "birthers" -- people who are perpetuating a cooked-up "controversy" long after it was settled to the satisfaction of others -- of racism. This is quite a different thing. To provide an analogy (though I don't know why I bother anymore), this is the difference between me spanking my child when he asks for his dinner, or spanking him after he's asked for dinner, I've given it to him, and he's thrown a tantrum demanding something else. > Jesse Jackson accuses badgers and flower pots and midichlorians of being > racist. Conceding the point, just not sure being accused by him amounts to > much of an insult. > > **No but it does make the accusation extremely mainstream. I wouldn't call Jesse Jackson "mainstream," let alone extremely so, but as I said, I concede the point. > You say that as if "slurring" someone is intrinsically wrong. > > ***How often is " an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo" a good > thing? "Nobody should ever be like Adolf Hitler, he was a jerk." Anybody have a problem with that insulting, disparaging remark? > More to the point when is a baseless accusation a good idea? Oh, I definitely agree that baseless accusations are never a good idea. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot