The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #97787   Message #1945216
Posted By: The Shambles
23-Jan-07 - 04:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Closed threads & deleted posts (3)
Subject: RE: BS: Closed threads & deleted posts (3)
And once again, you just don't get it. IT's A METAPHOR ROGER!

I got it the first time you posted it and this is at least the third time you have posted it. If you carry on - you may get judged as whingeing, repetitive and boring and have special restrictions imposed on your posting?

Not by me - for I think that posters can post their views as often as they like - as no one has to read or respond - nor post only to complain and judge the poster for this.

Does your metaphour mean that if enough people are encouraged to call others the same name - it follows that there is some value in that name?

The name you like to use is 'mal contents'. How would you define this, who would you include and who would you exclude?

The word 'sheep' is an old word used for those who just join in and follow any name-calling and do not appear to be able to make up their own minds or see the consequences.

If your metaphor is an old jewish saying then it is stupid and dangerous one.

To our great cost and not so very long ago enough people in a so-called civilised European nation were encouraged to call all jews (and others) non-persons (and worse) and make laws that enshrined this.

Should they have thought themselves to be non-persons?

Did all this succeed in making them non-persons?

I suggest that it did not.

But it did enable those encouraging the name-calling to steal (almost) everthing from these non-persons.