The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111847   Message #2386101
Posted By: CarolC
10-Jul-08 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: BS: Green/Godly Gardening
Subject: RE: BS: Green/Godly Gardening
It's so easy to pick on people who never fight back.

What I see happening is one poster is being attacked, mostly not for what this person is saying, but rather, for stuff of their own that other people are projecting onto this person. I'm taking a very different meaning from what I am reading from this poster than many other people are taking. I see this as probably a result of some weaknesses in communication on the part of the one being attacked, along with what appears to be an eagerness on the part of some people to gang up on one person and collectively abuse that person.

If I remember correctly, someone has compared this to playground bullying, and I would have to say that I agree with that characterization.

(I am not allowed to specifically refer to individual posters, so I have to couch my language somewhat obliquely.)