I object to the banning of Mr Tea for the same reason that I’m glad that hunderedmillionlifetimes was not banned. This forum needs more vociferous debaters, not less. All too many threads are characterised by either timorousness, or the kind of backslapping that leads the discussion nowhere (which hunderedmillionlifetimes rightly pointed out — ironically).
What was 'ironic' about it, Guybrush? [seriously]
The difficulty with the [need I have to repeat it - pomo] ideology you're advocating here is that it relegates all discussion to a bland spectator sport: let's give equal weight (indifference) to all views because then we'll never have to take a firm
ethical position on anything (ie all discussion remaining exclusively in the realm of Fantasy); while all the time
actually defending the
status quo as the untouchable, unquestionable reality principle.
Vimothy said:
Also, it might be nice if people had the decency to stop calling me a racist and just accept that we have different views for our own particular reasons, but I won't hold my breath.
We'll stop calling you a racist when you stop flooding this forum with racist anti-Muslim war-mongering propaganda. Yes, we do indeed have different 'views': your views are racist and extremely destructive. Look, Vim, the internet has no shortage of forums where your 'views' will be appreciated, from neo-con to neo-fascist websites and forums. Why do you persist in trolling this forum other than to hijack and distort serious and informed discussion on pressing political issues? [Don't answer; we already know from perusing Machiavelli]. You're inherently blind to your own prejudices, though we live in hope that when you're mature enough, educated enough, exposed enough, to the world concerning which you still know very little, your - obvious - intelligence will finally alert you to how you've allowed yourself to be conned by over-eagerly internalising the rantings of a few right-wing propagandists.
Vimothy said:
I feel like I'm missing some sort of subtext, maybe because I've not been posting here long. Is there a reason for all this? I thought that the purpose of this board was disagreement, i.e. dissensus.
Yes, you are indeed missing the subtext, as well as the text.