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azstrummer — (archived)

No Steve, what it means is that, if you're going to have a discussion when nerves are raw, you don't start from the extreme end of the political spectrum. You ease into it with a bit of compassion instead of jumping at an opportunity to advance your narrow-minded ideology.

There's a huge difference between starting a discussion (as ER did) where you lay out your own uncertainties and internal struggle about an issue and posting a link to an article that clearly is meant to provoke the opposite side. I could care less if Tom had the best of intentions and firmly believed what he was posting. It clearly inflamed the passions of a lot of people on here and brought instant indignation from more than just me.

Our society becomes more and more crass and bullying every day and it's time we stood up to this form of borishness. If you look into Tom's responses since the outrage began you'll see not one word of atonement for the style. Maybe it's because guys like you keep coming to his defense. They call that in psychology an enabler.

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