(06-24-2020 06:06 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(06-24-2020 05:19 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Big, it seems to me you just have a talent for insulting people without meaning to. Kind of like a friend once told me I had a talent for hitting every pothole in the road without even trying.

Alternatively, folks read way more into my posts than I actually write. Alternatively, people have thin skin around here. There have certainly been a few instances when I was trying to be a little insulting, or at least push some buttons.

But when everybody is reading more into your posts than you actually write, it could indicate you are being way more insulting than you intend t be.

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(06-24-2020 05:19 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Maybe take that precise thinking and think how your words will be perceived. As a lawyer, you should be well versed in hearing how certain words and phrases will be interpreted.

Yes, which is why I didn't think anyone would interpret my words as meaning "stupid" when I didn't write the word "stupid".

Lots of words and phrases get interpreted from context and usage. If you wrote somethng about those "geniuses" in MAGA hats, am I supposed to interpret that literally as praise for their intellectual prowess?

Quote:Ironically, 69/70/75 has repeatedly referred to Republicans as "the stupid party" without complaint from anyone who actually votes for many Republicans on here. As Tanq might say, "funny that".

When he writes about the party, he is not writing about us as individuals. Plus, he makes it very clear, time and time again, that he is not a
Republican.

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(06-24-2020 05:19 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Lumping everybody together in generic heaps is probably not the best way to go.

I lumped the 5-8 conservative/libertarian/right-of-center posters here together and then explicitly wrote that I don't lump them in with those other groups (MAGA hat or Fox & Friends).

I don't think I actually wrote anything derogatory about the MAGA hat folks or the Fox & Friends folks over the last few days. I have plenty of family members who have watched Fox over the years, many very dear to me. I don't think much of Fox News, but my relatives' viewing habits did not and does not affect my love or opinions of them. Same for anyone else.

It sounds to me like you speak of MAGA hat folks and Fox and Friends folks in the same way as Hillary speaks of deplorable folks - with a sneer and a holier than thou attitude. Or, exactly the way a white supremacist would refer to to BLM protesters.

What is wrong with MAGA hat wearing folks and what is wrong with Fox and Friends viewers?