So which was "the previous poster"?

But as for When assessing the agenda of a poster, one only has to look at his reactions to similar events involving different groupings, and his comments about those groups, whether positive or negative, along with general tendency to apply either the same, or different values depending on the particular groups. Do people actually do that kind of thing? Or is Don testing out his irony muscles.

I do wish we could have a ironic typeface available to us here...