Saturday, September 25, 2004
One reason I’m glad I blog baby stuff on a separate page… (UPDATED)
I really hate it when I’m reading along, enjoying a new-to-me blog about something not directly political, and find myself being insulted. I mean, it’s a bit of a shock to be reading along in someone’s adventures in, say, parenting a new baby and suddenly find that I’m a RepubliFuck.
Huh.
No link, because I’m not interested in throwing insults back, and this might well be taken as one. I will say that at least the writer got the bit about how the Republi(Fuck)cans will be winning in November right, even if the poor soul believes that it’s because the nation is largely populated by “scared sheep.”
Sigh.
UPDATE/CLARIFICATION (0000): 1. The link in the comments is not where I got the term from, so please don’t heap abuse on her. Even if that were where I’d come across the term, I don’t condone heaping abuse on anybody. As a matter of fact, I’m strenuously opposed to the idea of heaping abuse on the writer, as said writer is entitled to an opinion.
2. The comment in question was not directed at me. I took it personally because it’s hard not to take these things personally. I have friends who make the blogger I was talking about look like a right-wing nutjob, and we get along just fine without name calling. I suspect we all think each other crazy, but we coexist nicely.
3. This was meant as nothing more than a comment on the tenor of the campaign and the fact that it makes me a little sad. I don’t assume that because someone is a Democrat, I might not want to hear what they have to say about other subjects, but it’s hard to keep an open mind when you run across a usage like that. I have intentionally avoided discussing politics lately because of just this sort of thing, and at this point I’m really rather sorry that I mentioned it.
4. It makes it really hard to maintain that they hate us more than we hate them when y’all’s first instinct is to go on the attack. That’s probably my fault, as I didn’t phrase this post particularly well and it may have seemed that it was a personal thing, which it wasn’t. Just a rant I ran across in the middle of a post about something else.
5. I’ve never pulled a post, but I’ll pull this one if the comments are used for plotting out how to harass the blogger who said this. It’s beneath us, folks. Knock it off. If you’re going to flame somebody, flame me for telling you not to flame anyone. Or for being a bitch in general. Or whatever you like, really. But don’t use my lament over the condition of politcial discourse to drag it even deeper into the gutter.