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Published September 09, 2003
This is a post that was left off Blogcritics duriing a very hostile time. Obviously because I was trying to be considerate it is now assumed I was being 'sneaky'. Miss Sneaky, to be exact. So here is the post in its original form with all the mistakes and bad grammar, now maybe I can be upgraded to Semi Sneaky...
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The pleasures of adulthood
I'm only 24. La di da di da. Age is just number whether you are 24 or 64 if you have not grown out of childish ways, your age represents how long you've been acting like a child.
A fellow Blogger of the sinister cabal has taken offense to some comments posted to comments from a post that I made. I repeat 'offense to some comments posted to comments from a post that I made'. Now she went thru the regular tirade of letting them know how racist they were and so and so. when people didn't jump on her bag waggon as she felt they should, she clicked. she threatened to leave, threatened to delete her post and cause financial harm to the site by petitioning the sponsor: Amazon.
If I am not mistaken, and I often am, Blogs are for the purpose of stating your opinions. How can you get pissed at someone's opinion? Even if it is that they do not like you? Its that one person's opinion. Big Deal! Needless to say I stayed quiet, then finally I said:
Hmmm as a 'person of color' (like we all arent people of color) I do not know whether this will hurt, hender or harm 'the Black Movement' but suffice it to say I must be heard or read...
Painstakingly I must admit that Al, no matter how zealous and unrelenting in its efforts still deserves the right to express his opinion, no matter how unruling it may be. His unyielding attempt to provoke reactions is exactly the main reason I love this site. Its the left field attitudes that force the rest of us to either sh*t or get off the pot(excuse my french).
I can not speak for others but I enjoy that. Being of unsound mind and body I do not take pleasure in anything too easy. If there is no challenge there is no interest, so Al, Andy and Joe are all necessary. Were some of their comments out of line? Hell yea! But so were the Diva's. She let her personal outrage remove her objectiveness causing her point to be moot. Hey, it happens to the best of us.
I don't think what the 3 musketeers (yea I said it) said warrented her resignation, especially since it seemed she had been quite a contributor. If nothing else she should have been more willing and adamant about creating a presence that would supress what she perceived as their bigotry...But eh, what do I know?
To which I received a comment from said 'upset Blogger':
Dew, I've been cutting you some slack on the grounds of youth and naivete. End of that. What you've posted above is pure piffle
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Thank you, Tom, very well put. I'm sorry that you posted this, Dew, as it does lower you to the level of your accusers. It would have been better, I think, to have let the post stay where it was. Don't let people get under your skin!
I know, more easily said than done.
What's been happening lately on certain specific posts is that disagreements boil down to pure insults, name calling, insinuations, and lies with no regard for the original topic. This is just childish and doesn't accomplish anything but making enemies. The best way to make this stop is to not respond, no matter how angry it makes you. Anger is fed by attention, and inattention forces the anger to burn itself out.
I'm sorry that you posted this, Dew, as it does lower you to the level of your accusers. It would have been better, I think, to have let the post stay where it was.
agreed and agreed
And your agreement has already raised you up a bit from that level again. ;)
Philip, that's so funny, I ws going to say just that.
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Controversy and disagreement has been a staple of Blogcritics as long as I've been a part of the site (early this year,) and probably since its inception last year. It just goes with the territory. Most people can deal with that intelligently, and even if it reduces down to insults, there is still a core of the argument that actually has something to do with the topic at hand. What's been happening lately on certain specific posts is that disagreements boil down to pure insults, name calling, insinuations, and lies with no regard for the original topic. This is just childish and doesn't accomplish anything but making enemies. The best way to make this stop is to not respond, no matter how angry it makes you. Anger is fed by attention, and inattention forces the anger to burn itself out. I hope we can all take the high road and simply skip over the posts by names we know we're going to not just disagree with but wind up in a heated angry dispute with. Intelligent, mature people take this route. We all want to be mature and intelligent, don't we?