I understand the point you are making hereand I do respect your point of view. You are obviously a kind and tenderhearted person. I like you because of that. You have made yourself clear on this several times. If your feelings on this were universal than I could more easily agree with you more completely, as it is, they are not and so I am not. I have gotten used to repeated japes and jibes regarding Elizabeth, Charles, Thatcher, Bush, and Palin, to name only a few. Nothing is sacred here and only a few things off limits, I have seen Christianity savaged on this board but oddly only rarely Islam, a religion as ripe for satire as any. Chavs are a favorite target here and so are the Welsh. .The French are ridiculed unmercifully. I've even seen black culture, especially American black culture depicted through embarrassing historical lenses repeatedly on this board, golliwogs, lawn jockeys, blackface, vaudeville, ridiculous animated bulging eyes etc. So your concrete stance on this now frankly surprises me. You are taking a high moral ground here, setting yourself as arbiter of what is acceptable and what is not. I live with these kinds attempts to squelch expression, satire and humor and to control language every day of my life, for example any given opposition to the policies of Barak Obama's administration are instantly and axiomatically tagged racist without any attempt at all in responding to the substance of the criticism, and I visit here on B3ta precisely to escape such thoughtless charges. And yet here it is again. Lastly, you are using argumentum ad populum to support your position, fallacious reasoning I reject. I do hope you choose not to abandon the board because your sensibilities are offended. You might be surprised at the umbrage I've swallowed so that I can persist in enjoying the genuine creativity expressed here.
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kombu dashi,
Sat 20 Nov 2010, 19:56,
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well said.but now that the feeding frenzy is over, it is doubtful that the hypocritical feeders will come back to read this. And even if they did, they'd likely not keep the conversation alive, because they prefer to be on the offensive rather than on defense.
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LS18,
Sat 20 Nov 2010, 20:17,
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