She couldn't be more right. But what I object to is none of the things you cite, John. I take exception to her hatefulness and her use of vicious rhetorical devices, because these are cast on the premise that genuine dialogue and a respectful exchange of ideas should be subordinated to shouting and slurring. If she has been visited by ad hominem statements, it is more than anything else because she opened the table to the ad hominem game of hateful slurring, and if she gets hoist by her own petard, all the better.

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