It was posted as
(1) OT
(2) Political - read at your own risk
People who do not like politics had a chance to stop right there.
I am not sharp enough to digest or parse political posts and only skimmed it.
If I were a better political analyst, I would have commented on it...Lord knows I comment on everything else.
LkA has smacked me around a time or two for being insensitive. Maybe she was right...maybe she wasn't. My beef has always been people getting their feelings hurt by a bunch of strangers on a forum. Because I get really sick of people being too sensitive and being too unwilling to do their own research, I will probably move my "cause" for self-education forward again and make her unhappy with me, but she gets over it and she does not try to take a vote on how rotten my posts are.
This lady is not an insensitive person. It was off-topic. I feel to take a vote on her post is a little over the top. Lulu, I really do want to get on well with you, but sometimes I feel you really do want to censor this board and tailor it to be what you want it to be. I hope that my opinion on this does not offend you.
Asking for people who were upset by this is like trying to be everyone's mother and take care of them. People are adults here. This is such a minute part of life as how it reflects on the reality of who the readers are.
I refuse to condescend to people different from me by trying to be their protector on this board. Condescend? How? It infers I think they are weaker. I figure they can protect themselves and can defend themselves...just like I can. To me, that's giving them a heck of a lot more credit right now than your response to this post which is literally you trying to encourage people to stand together behind your skirt.
Again, she posted with plenty of warning that it was political. Again, people were warned they could have ignored it.
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