Posted by Gabbix2 on March 4, 2006, at 22:40:33
In reply to Re: 5 » 5, posted by Tamar on March 4, 2006, at 22:13:57
I appreciate that that is probably exactly the case.
However.. it's a politics board, if you can't critique a foreign policy on a politics board because people from that Country might be upset by it, that's assuming that there are no readers or posters who are from the Countries, where policy has been critiqued.
And there have been countries who have been criticized, just not as frequently.I've had my lifestyle critiqued on that board and was expected not to take it personally.
No one got blocked or P.B.C'd and if they had I wouldn't have thought it fair.
Though It's one of the 3 times on Babble I've been genuinely hurt.
(As opposed to just annoyed, my standard negative emotion : )
I accepted it as a critique though, and it was political. My hurt aside, It was perfectly appropriate topic to discuss on a politics board.
And I realize that. I can't suddenly start saying.. wahhhh "Don't discuss 'what you think gov't policy should be for those who aren't working cause it hurts my feelings.."
Every topic has the potential to hurt someone
No matter how it's put.Discussing politics upsets people, that's why some people make a vow not to discuss it, but it seems to me that foreign policy is about as removed from the personal as it is possible to get when discussing politics.
I didn't see a precedent for what happened to 5
I have understood the problems in previous posts But that post.. well its a mystery to me. And I don't think it's fair (if the block was because of the tone of previous posts) to make the leap that no more criticism of the U.S would be tolerated by the poster.. just well..cause people are getting tired of it from you.
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