Re: A critique of the BBC aquatic ape programme and the transcript.


JAE wrote:
> Algis Kuliukas wrote:
>
> > JAE wrote:
>
> > Who decides if it's provoked or not? What you called Marc was worse
> > than anything he's ever called anyone. It may well be worse than
> anyone
> > has called *anyone* on this ng as far as I know. Marc has had to
deal
> > with a great deal of hostility for years from people like you, so
> who's
> > to say he wasn't provoked too?
>
> I am having a very hard time seeing you I provoked him such that his
> first post to me (not first exchange, but first post) got him to call
> me an ass. Does he have precognition, or are you being an apologetic
> putz who's got his back to the wall and his nose so far up Marc's ass
> that you can smell what he had for lunch?

My point, obviously, wasn't that *you* had provoked him, but others.
There is a tendancy, especially on newsgroups where the only
discriminating features of individual posters is their name (obviously)
and subtle differences in style, to tar opponents in debates such as
these with the same brush. I'm not excusing that behaviour, but it
happens all the time with AAH proponents.

Algis Kuliukas

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