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I am interested in rectifying it.

I am letting people work through their proposal and I will respond to it.

I want you to understand something though. I really hope you do understand it.

The stuff spidey is writing right now is not new. It has been going on sporadically since July. Not just her, but a group of people. They began to gel in response to the Muslim cartoon controversy and they got organized in the second great ductape rift in July. I have been subjected to all kinds of allegations and aspersions. I take it in as much stride as I can muster.

But I know who they are. And when they show up here and post a photo of me and my girlfriend as evidence of my bias (THE EXACT ARGUMENT THEY MADE IN JULY) and try to pass it off as a new revelation, they are engaged in blog-wrecking and dissension sowing. So, hell yes, I saw it as more of a threat than whether or not I warned, suspended, or banned a member for breaking the rules. What they are doing right now can only be described as an effort to enflame this community through the magnification of a decision I made to issue a warning rather than cede to their demands.

That other well meaning people agree with their criticism doesn't change what they are doing and have been doing for a very long time.

And unless you understand that, you can't understand why I did not take it at all well to be lied to about rather irrelevant details from long ago. I knew what she was up to and if you have any doubt go read her post again.

This also goes to my reaction to the DD thing. What kind of nut goes to the trouble to take someone's name, find their place of work, take a company photo of a person, and then link to it and make disparaging points about their appearance. And then go find their friendster profile and mock them for what kind of woman they would like to meet? These people are out to destroy.

I wish people could understand that.

by BooMan on Mon Feb 5th, 2007 at 12:20:53 PM EST
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Boo there's Meta and there's META (4.00 / 2)

DD is a big reason I wandered over here via Jerome and EuroTrib. The stuff DD writes and the way he comes down on people is beyond the pale, and the brunt of the attacks and flame wars often seem to end up being hurled at outspoken women. And there are others there and at other mainstream blogs that are as bad or worse.

DD and his ilk have a very chilling effect on free and open discourse. <Long aside here>While electoral mechanics, messaging, and policy governance are the critical issues facing us right now, there are other significant issues underway that need open, free and unfettered discussion; like say the disenlightenment and return to royalism that's well underway.</Long Aside>

And the unhinged way DD and others went off on marisacat is simply symptomatic of their worldview. BTW, did you ban that guy hurling out the c and b words about marisacat? That was beyond the pale and had nothing to do with this site.

Where I grew up, if an innocent third-party had heard the invective being hurled at marisacat by some of these people across the blog worlds at a bar, party or out on the street they would have knocked the shit out of them without even knowing who she was.

The marisacat attacks across the blogs were uncalled for and way out of control. I think that at some level they also contributed to the opening of other wounds here.

And that's all I have to say on that topic.

by northcountry on Mon Feb 5th, 2007 at 01:49:19 PM EST
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Just in case you wouldn't notice otherwise, I did write a response to this comment, but put it in the wrong place. Its downthread.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Mon Feb 5th, 2007 at 01:19:54 PM EST
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