A note of thanks
Mar. 6th, 2006 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI write this Lj for me. Which means I get to indulge my hobbyhorses and put half-formed thoughts out here. Those who don't like it are free to not read it.
But I like interaction. I enjoy comments, and those of you who choose to comment have been pretty good about it.
More to the point, for whatever reason (perhaps I am small, perhaps I lack the ability to irritate) I don't get much in the way of trolls. I get some. The odd piece of hate mail, but nothing like the things I see when I go out into the wider blogosphere.
And for that I'm grateful. The hatemail's not such a big deal. I got my first piece of that sort of thing when I was in college, I've gotten as used to it as I can, and it's easier to deal with now, because digging up my actual location is harder. When people can drop off hate mail in person, one knows they can lie in wait.
What I don't get much of is the dittoehead sort of stuff.
I was reading the comments at The Washington Monthly and one of the local "gadflies" tried to take me to task.
After a couple of posts trying to point out his errors (some of them plain failures of comprehension, as I said I had done things, and he said that was impossible) I gave up. His repsonse to arguement...."You're a Liberal."
Which may be true (I tend to think of it as progressive, and somewhat centrist, but I'll entertain the idea that I'm wrong in how I label myself). But what I believe has nothing to do with the merits of the facts I present. It may (in fact it certainly does) color how I interpret those facts, but the facts don't change.
When my statement of why I think the facts mean a thing is, "refuted" with a response not different in value from, "And so's your old man," well I give up.
I don't get that here, for which I am grateful.
Thank you all.
But I like interaction. I enjoy comments, and those of you who choose to comment have been pretty good about it.
More to the point, for whatever reason (perhaps I am small, perhaps I lack the ability to irritate) I don't get much in the way of trolls. I get some. The odd piece of hate mail, but nothing like the things I see when I go out into the wider blogosphere.
And for that I'm grateful. The hatemail's not such a big deal. I got my first piece of that sort of thing when I was in college, I've gotten as used to it as I can, and it's easier to deal with now, because digging up my actual location is harder. When people can drop off hate mail in person, one knows they can lie in wait.
What I don't get much of is the dittoehead sort of stuff.
I was reading the comments at The Washington Monthly and one of the local "gadflies" tried to take me to task.
After a couple of posts trying to point out his errors (some of them plain failures of comprehension, as I said I had done things, and he said that was impossible) I gave up. His repsonse to arguement...."You're a Liberal."
Which may be true (I tend to think of it as progressive, and somewhat centrist, but I'll entertain the idea that I'm wrong in how I label myself). But what I believe has nothing to do with the merits of the facts I present. It may (in fact it certainly does) color how I interpret those facts, but the facts don't change.
When my statement of why I think the facts mean a thing is, "refuted" with a response not different in value from, "And so's your old man," well I give up.
I don't get that here, for which I am grateful.
Thank you all.
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Date: 2006-03-06 10:48 pm (UTC)Well, you know, that kind of background would taint the purity of your strategic thinking sufficiently that you aren't really qualified to discuss it either.
It isn't just the right that thinks reality is what appears in Certain US publications.