"I think what he's objecting to is your personal attacks on specific individuals who don't agree with you on some issue, Don, not your general political stance or your opinions on social issues.

But, hell, I've been telling you that for years...and what good did it do? ;-) None. You figure you have 100% righteous license to behave that way to people, since you are defending "the oppressed". As soon as you have identified "the witch" in our midst, you feel it is okay to subject them to that form of treatment.

"Anyone who breaks rank here on this forum on certain key trigger issues...anyone perceived as "outside" the ruling political orthodoxy that's in sway here....will be treated in that particularly abusive fashion by a little self-righteous gang of passive-aggressive individuals here who delight in attacking people personally. I've never liked that sort of bullying gang mentality. I saw plenty of it when I was in school, and I remember." Little Hawk

Ye gods, Little Hawk. If you really believe what you say there you are letting your own biases color all over it.

All you need do - if you have the time to do it - is to go through all these posts from ake and GfS on one side and the Dons on the other and post them onto a Word document and you would very quickly and definitively see who has been abusive. And it most definitely has not been the two Dons.

For that matter, Little Hawk, no matter the dispassionate manner in which you give your opinions, what you actually say is insulting.