Personal attacks

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Well, most OT participants have been clamoring for less moderation and the site administration has acquiesced on the issue.

I, for one, approve!

Not that I matter.

[Chris_Жанна 11]

Well, most OT participants have been clamoring for less moderation and the site administration has acquiesced on the issue.

The upper forums on the other hand, are hands off, so to speak.

Carry on!!

And out come the wolves......

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

I, for one, approve!

Not that I matter.

Dude you love personal attacks! till they come your way. Then your whiny a$$ starts cryin like a lil biotch! On top a that your a fvckin SPAM KING!

[William33 110]

I, for one, approve!

Not that I matter.

Take things out of context much there A.J.? Your discontent has been noted for the, let's see, the 512th time?

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Take things out of context much there A.J.? Your discontent has been noted for the, let's see, the 512th time?

Awwww he just aint got no one to tuck him in!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Take things out of context much there A.J.? Your discontent has been noted for the, let's see, the 512th time?

The tone of your response confuses me.

[scandal 951]

You are correct...I'm an avid "free speecher". At times I might appear to be offended by something more for show to make a point. The point being that often people use these symbols as fashion statements while being totally ignorant of the history behind the symbols.

When I was a kid growing up in the 1960's there were always WWII movies on TV and kids in my elementary school class sometimes drew swastikas on their bookcovers because they thought it was cool or hip. They were just goofing and meant nothing by doing it. Our music teacher saw this and gave a big speech that took up our entire music period to explain why this was offensive. It was out of ignorance more than any political statement. Most of these kids had fathers that were WWII military vets and actually fought the Nazis.

Symbols in and of themselves mean nothing without context. Whenever I get riled about something like "Commies 4 Christ" I just wish some of the people that think this is hip would just go to the public library and read the history behind the "Hammer & Sickle". The history is no more pretty than the swastka.

I think we agree here much more than you might think.

Avid 'free speechers' (you and I both) understand that sometimes (often?) we'll be challenged by speech that offends our sensibilities. It's how we react that's important. It's perfectly ok to be offended, and to make it clear that we're offended or outraged. Doing so is just as much an exercise of free speech as the originating act. You have every bit as much right to be peeved by C4C badges as the C4C gang has to post them.

It's the stifling of speech that's intolerable. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, there was widespread blacklisting of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians based solely upon unsubstantiated fear mongering by the House Committee on Un-American Activities that these were active Communist agents. Lives and careers were destroyed by the very elected representatives sworn to uphold our Constitution, including the First Amendment. I'm reminded by that whenever I hear criticism of C4C badges or Che or Mao symbols.

I'm not a Communist. I am well aware of the abuses perpetrated by the USSR, Communist China, Erich Honecker and the DDR, Pol Pot, Castro and all their kin. I condemn them and what they stood for, all of them. I also uphold the right of anyone - left-leaning college professors, hippie kids in Berkeley CA, VJ members, or just plain teenage mallrats - to write or wear whatever the hell they like on their T-shirts, placards, or VJ signature files. In the 1970s the ACLU protected the right of the American Nazi Party to march through Skokie IL. It was controversial, I remember at the time (as a Jewish kid) the outrage in my synagogue and community about this 'sellout'. Now, 30 years later, I think the ACLU was spot on.

Free speech is not just a slogan. It's tough, and sometimes very uncomfortable to really stand behind it and believe in it.

As famously mis-attributed to Voltaire: ""I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

Scandal ~ your sparkly name avatar offends me. Sparkles make me want to vomit.

STFU

[spookyturtle 9,465]

I think we agree here much more than you might think.

Avid 'free speechers' (you and I both) understand that sometimes (often?) we'll be challenged by speech that offends our sensibilities. It's how we react that's important. It's perfectly ok to be offended, and to make it clear that we're offended or outraged. Doing so is just as much an exercise of free speech as the originating act. You have every bit as much right to be peeved by C4C badges as the C4C gang has to post them.

It's the stifling of speech that's intolerable. At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, there was widespread blacklisting of screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians based solely upon unsubstantiated fear mongering by the House Committee on Un-American Activities that these were active Communist agents. Lives and careers were destroyed by the very elected representatives sworn to uphold our Constitution, including the First Amendment. I'm reminded by that whenever I hear criticism of C4C badges or Che or Mao symbols.

I'm not a Communist. I am well aware of the abuses perpetrated by the USSR, Communist China, Erich Honecker and the DDR, Pol Pot, Castro and all their kin. I condemn them and what they stood for, all of them. I also uphold the right of anyone - left-leaning college professors, hippie kids in Berkeley CA, VJ members, or just plain teenage mallrats - to write or wear whatever the hell they like on their T-shirts, placards, or VJ signature files. In the 1970s the ACLU protected the right of the American Nazi Party to march through Skokie IL. It was controversial, I remember at the time (as a Jewish kid) the outrage in my synagogue and community about this 'sellout'. Now, 30 years later, I think the ACLU was spot on.

Free speech is not just a slogan. It's tough, and sometimes very uncomfortable to really stand behind it and believe in it.

As famously mis-attributed to Voltaire: ""I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

STFU

I think if the truth be known, you are an Australian.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

STFU

Back when I was a noob on this site, posting under my previous account, another poster told me that a graphic I posted was giving her seizures and that I should remove it. I did. She later told me she was epileptic.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

The tone of your response confuses me.

Here this should UN CONFUSE YOU!

Try these shoes on!

/v/cXWbMu4PtpE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"

[William33 110]

The tone of your response confuses me.

Really? The did not put it into perspective? I enjoy the comeraderie of VJ, to include you A.J.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Here this should UN CONFUSE YOU!

Try these shoes on!

/v/cXWbMu4PtpE&hl=en_US&fs=1&"

You so silly.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

You so silly.

You TOO!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

good one.

[scandal 951]

You TOO!

I know you are but what am I?