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In reply to the discussion: Is this blog post intolerant of the transgendered? [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)Or even read anyone's posts. That is what ignore is for. Yet for some reason ignore isn't enough for some. They insist on nurturing grudges despite putting people on ignore. That has everything to do with who they are as people rather than the target of their anger.
As for former DUers, who cares? They aren't here anymore. Why even worry about what they say?
My issue with this whole discussion is that everything people claim to hold against people posting on the Duckies thread (and we only know the identity of one current DUer) has been done in spades in this thread. People seem to feel themselves entitled to do what they accuse others of and feel justified because of their already existing animosity toward that member. Several have even called out other DUers they suspect of participating in that other site based on nothing but idle speculation. At least three of us have been falsely maligned, and in my case I wasn't even a member of DU at the time of that Duckies thread.
I fail to see why something said on a site two years ago justifies taking smack about DUers this week. It is clear the only motivation here is antipathy toward certain individuals. Skinner called it a "meta shit show" and he's right. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12595609#post1 He doesn't give a damn about off-board activity. Why should you?
Pointing to the MRA site and the fact other DUers make negative comments about members on other websites can only be seen as a change of subject when one conceives of the subject as being entirely about condemning Seabeyond and HOF. The exact same arguments posted on an extreme right-wing MRA site are frequently made on this board, and that people here don't care tells me that the outrage has nothing to do with bigotry, since MRAs are intensely bigoted against women. The lack of concern over associations with HopeHoops is also instructive. When associating with banned feminists is deemed as worse than sheltering a repeat troll who is an admitted rapist, something is seriously wrong.
There isn't one person making condemnations here who hasn't already made their contempt for Seabeyond and the rest of HOF clear on multiple occasions. One thing this thread has done is shine a light on the characters of those who feel themselves entitled to engage in the same behavior they condemn others for, only they have done it in the middle of GD.
Just put the people you dislike on ignore and be done with it. You'll save yourself a great deal of angst.
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