you are making a mockery of the FC board.
With the exception of Laird and now Welles with his last post, FC has made a mockery of itself. Even lurkers are now coming out of the woodwork to add their indirect support of hate speech. In the name of civility no less.
Since by general agreement of the board I am clearly in the wrong to confront the hate speech being spewed here consider this post to be my official resignation from the board. Welles last post shows he is starting to put the issue in context.
Context is everything.
He is the ONLY one ( vocal one that is, Laird is being sensibly quite ) who is doing so. I refuse to help lend an air of credibility to a board that has a definite higher than average intelligence and understanding of what is going on in world politics, when that same board can't get it together to confront hate speech.
I will be back later to respond to Welles last post and may respond to other posts to clarify my position on this subject.
As far as being a contributor to the thread my failed attempt to address the hate speech which is the subject at hand was the end of the line.
It has been enjoyable and edifying while it lasted. Everybody has or at least should have a moral limit to the violence ( and I consider hate speech to be violence ) they are willing to participate support. Directly or indirectly. Am has made it clear I have crossed some line of civility of the thread. The thread has also crossed mine.
Some might say I am being a cry baby. They can say whatever nasty things they want. Some might say I am being unreasonable.
Maybe so, but ask yourself this, when was the last time you knew a reasonable person afraid to make waves that every made any real change?
I did mean it when I say it was enjoyable and edifying while it lasted.
CT