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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)when I read that, it didn't register the same way with me at all. It didn't offend me at all.
I think a lot of people tend to jump on things said by people they are not happy with (oppositional political views), and misconstrue their words, not intentionally, but emotionally.
I hate the c word. I am a woman. I didn't take offense at NYC_SKP's post. He was making a joke on what someone else said.
I have to say I've been a little bit taken aback by the strong push for Hillary by the forum admins. I think that has a lot to do with this banning. They were the ones who over-reacted to his post, and took the worst meaning from it they could...not necessarily the way he meant it.
But that is just my perception of what happened. Nobody really "knows" what is in another's head unless they spell it out for us. We all make a lot of "assumptions" of what other people mean by what they say.