NOTE: Sorry, when I moved brekin's post here the software erased the OP, which explained the purpose of this thread, and changed the thread title. I didn't know that would happen. Apparently it was because brekin's timestamp was older.In any case...
RI mods have never been muzzled from speaking their opinions. It's a perk of having to take all this shit for no reward. You seem to think this is a job? Are you paying me? (As a long-time member, you obviously know all this.)
Since you can't define my position you have to dehumanize me to fit your approved talking points?
False. Also, you've reversed the order, sir.
Your position is easily "defined." You write clearly and we all can read. As I wrote, your recent texts on the "Dem VP / 2020 Riots" thread are anti-humanist, unsubtle, hateful of the individual and youth, a revival of Le Bon's old screeds about stupid crowds, etc., etc. They're much nastier than the nastiness you project on me for saying so.
Those are not exaggerations or insults, they describe the positions you express, at least in my view. I suppose whether you think my comments count as "ad-hominem" depends on the extent to which you identify yourself with the content of your published words.
However, someone I respect suggested something like that: that it was "parody." So I was nice enough to ask. My mistake. I got a speech about how your art is just like Chekhov's. But since it speaks for itself, I can stick with my verdict.
Sad. (And let's not even get into empathy and respect for individuals, old timers on RI have not forgotten how you asked another member to go kill themselves.)
slimmouse, yes. It's a common if mean turn of phrase, and I doubt of any concern to that particular troll, who was banned long before my era as mod.
A different member thereupon took up the misinterpretation that she had been meant, although this was never the case. Something like ten years later, you, who had nothing to do with it, are out to revive it.
Apparently you "free speech advocates" are going to want my words punished for a term longer than that meted out on average for actual murder, at least in most places outside the U.S.
But I'll take it as a badge of honor. Invoking this canard is a favored move among those who have lost an argument against me, a kind of inadvertant white flag. Thank you.
(As for the rest, etc. etc., oh Glorious New Chekhov, how you've exposed and wounded me, atouchatouch I fear I breathe my last, etc. etc.)
I love it when people who obviously spend days preparing their posts think to insult others by suggesting that they spend too much time on the Internet. Which we all, clearly, do.
Your overblown misanthropic texts have not been subject to censorship, merely criticism. If you post, people can express their opinion on it. If you don't like that opinion, you can ignore it, or defend what you wrote. Claiming falsely that refutations of what you wrote are ad-hominem doesn't mean you get to do actual ad-hominem in return.
So. Flame war stops now. Surely you have better things to do? We don't want to delay your search for still images from
Gremlins (the first, not the sequel) that you can caption with misinterpreted bits of Nietzsche.