Posted by mair on July 21, 2002, at 10:39:16
In reply to Re: He shouldn't get away with this, posted by shar on July 21, 2002, at 6:38:05
Shar
The point I was tryng to make is that the post that Dr. Bob flagged was written by Kiddo on July 18. Lou posted 3 or 4 more times after that on the 18th, and all of these posts were directed to kiddo. He did not raise the anti-semitism issue until the next day, after Dr. Bob's admonishment. I think it's an after-the-fact rationalization to say that he was already thinking of raising this issue before Bob ever flagged it. However, this may be appropos of nothing other than perhaps Dr. Bob fuels Lou with his cautions to other posters.
My other point however is that I find very little difference between calling someone an anti-semite and accusing them of using anti-semitic rhetoric. Anti-semitism is such a loaded issue - I don't care whether he thought his post was being instructive or whatever - if you use that word in reference to something someone has said, they can't help but be offended.
In spite of the fact that I took almost as many religion courses in college as I needed to have it be my major, I have little patience with or interest in discussing the finer points of the Bible, and should probably stay out of these discussions. I just really thought that Lou followed kiddo over here to the admin Board, not the other way around, and chose to respond to her post to Dr. Bob with a post that one could easily take as accusatory. Posters here are constantly being told by Bob not to read things Lou writes that may upset them or to not respond to him unless they can find a way (frequently strained) to say it in a way that no human being could possibly find to be accusatory or unsupportive. My personal opinion is that Lou says and does alot of things on the Board that can really be construed as being quite inflammatory, the post in question being but one example. Do you think that the last upteen posts on this thread would ever have occurred had Lou not responded to Kiddo's post to Dr. Bob?
Mair
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