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In reply to the discussion: This is hard... [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)with reality. Is the OP a pedophile? A misogynist? If the answer is "no" to both of those questions, and I'm sure they are, then the value of the accusations are nil.
I have a weird sense of humor that often doesn't come off well on DU. I've been accused of being a misogynist (though I'm a lifelong feminist), a racist (though my family has looked like the U.N. since the early 1960's) and there are/were e-mails going around, to which I have been privy, telling others not to pay attention to anything I have to say because I'm crazy -- as in mentally disturbed. The point is that *I* know I am none of those things and if I were to have left DU (as I've sometimes considered) I would have handed over to those with false accusations MY power to speak freely.
Look, there are always going to be people out there who thrive, literally, on raining on other peoples' parades. They think it makes them feel better about themselves. You can choose to give those people and their words credence or you can choose not to give them credence. It's up to you.