The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #90810 Message #1725640
Posted By: Bill D
23-Apr-06 - 07:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Your favourite Shamblism?
Subject: RE: BS: Your favourite Shamblism?
"ยท.And you can always pretend that something is not happening by changing the name."
And you can always pretend that something *IS* happening by changing the name, too!
'editing' suddenly becomes 'censoring' and 'imposing of judgements'...substitute a loaded word for a neutral word and you have PRESTO!, a trampling of rights!
If you don't LIKE the way Joe or a clone does his job, just label it with a perjorative term, and require everyone else to respond to YOUR terminology. That's a technique some of our more obnoxious 'conservative' pundits use over here (Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly). You just try to wrap everyone who tries to debate with you in mazes of verbage, and then smugly assert that they haven't proved their points...
and if you can get them steamed enough to *gasp* use strong language to answer you, you change the point to the 'attacks' on you!
Let's make something VERY clear...if you are guilty of a transgression, you do not become UN-guilty because someone calls you names or makes fun of you to illustrate their point. Driving your opponents up the wall until they use 'colorful' language to respond does not mean that you 'win'.