The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113211   Message #2498220
Posted By: peregrina
20-Nov-08 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
Subject: RE: The Weekly Walkabout (part 2.)
An earlier post from someone was right. Regardless of the content of WAV's beliefs, this thread is bullying.
A bunch of people log on regularly to punch a punching bag, sometimes posting nowhere else. The lynch mob is always a mob, even when it goes after someone who is 'really' 'guilty'. Scapegoating never says something positive about the community that tolerates it.

Many complain that WAV won't change his views. After more than 1000 posts, you are still trying?! Who's the dupe? Who is the more stubborn? Wake up to human nature and reality--even persuasion from right-thinking speakers in the name of justice doesn't work unless it is persuasive. The attention here quite obviously serves as encouragement; it is not effective persuasion.

If one person refuted objectionable posts each time, and others added their views about other topics to other threads, the objectionable thread would sink off the bottom of the page quite fast into deserved silence and temporary oblivion.

If you are really concerned about standing up against racism and crypto-racism,--well worth doing, of course--do it where it counts. There are more appropriate and effective forums for free speech, debate, and refutation.
And Spaw, using WAV as your punching-bag pretext for entertaining others with unbridled foulmouthery is a meretricious, equally attention seeking misuse of free speech--taking advantage of a license allowed to no other posters. I say clean it up.

Right, I'm outta here--hat, coat, suitcase, ticket, and a clothespeg for my nose so I don't smell that stench of this thread anymore.