Re: JSH: Funding, real world, not fantasy

From: Tim Peters (tim.one_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:00:33 -0500

[Tim Peters]
...
>> I understand and appreciate the different contexts in which "appropriate"
>> can be applied here, and I *believe* I understand what David meant at the
>> time: that responding to JSH's baseless hurtful insults with "some sort
>> of racial slur" would be a reply-in-kind that perhaps JSH could
>> understand -- not specifically to hurt him, but as a way to get him to
>> understand how his hurtful words sometimes made others feel. That's
>> arguably appropriate so far as it goes. I happen to believe it's always
>> wrong to use such speech in public, and from that more-distant view it
>> would have been inappropriate to my eyes had he done so. Since he didn't
>> [do] so, I figure to his eyes too.

[David C. Ullrich]
> Congratulations, you got it.

Yet for some reason I don't feel like celebrating <0.9 wink>.

> Of course, some might say that you don't really deserve a lot of
> smartness points for having figured out something that I've explicitly
> stated several times.

Nope, no smartness points at all. I would claim minimal points for reading
comprehension and archive searching skills, but then I'm afraid I'd have to
accept demerits too for actually spending the time to find and read all that
stuff <0.9 wink>.

> But considering the difficulty some others (well, one other) seems to
> have here...

Yup, another repetition sure does seem pointless. While I don't think your
original post was entirely prudent, on an offensiveness scale from 1 to 10 I
rate it near 0. I would have apologized for it anyway -- but that's easy to
say given that I haven't been subjected to endless abuse from JSH myself.
In all, I admire your restraint.

just-another-fucking-idiot-defending-your-immoral-ass-ly y'rs - tim

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