Who are you to decide who’s a think skin nutjob? Jerk.
Leave the replicants alone!
Sanctimonious much?
My only intention is to tell you you’re an arrogant asshole. But then, you probably can’t realize you’re a jerk. You can’t reflect on anything when blinded by your own excellence.
But please, go right on dictating proper thoughts and behavior for others. The multitudes bow down.
God, when did The Pit get so prissy?
Wow, what a comeback. I am awed by your intellect.
Crass or jerkish, tasteful or not, what is being talked about here are feelings. No one can be the arbiter of another’s feelings and attempts to shut them down are ineffective and counter-productive. How can we have a forum that allows people to wish things like maggots in scrotums for slower drivers, dying in fires to unsuccessful romance attempts and similar, yet draw the line at possibly hurting Novak’s feelings or lowering some poster’s opinions of other posters by posting bile about a vicious, immoral man?
Can we even say no one deserves cancer? It’s a disease, not a death sentence. What if he was diagnosed with HIV? or emphysema? How about diabetes or kidney failure? Which diseases are off limits? Which are ok to mock about? I’d like to know. If he got the clap, can we all laugh?
The Pit serves a great purpose in that it siphons off a lot of venom and bile and keeps other forums mostly polite and civil. If not in the Pit, then where? Is it ok to say you hope Novak dies just to your spouse? your coworker? your sister? Is it not ok to say it at all? Ever? I was raised to think never, ever, but the rules are a bit different online, IMO.
I don’t wish any illness on anyone, but it’s too much to expect me to wish Mr Novak a return to good health. I don’t hope he dies a slow, lingering, painful death, but I will not deny that this world will be better off without him. I don’t even really believe that he has brain cancer yet-it seems a bit too pat for me to swallow. I’d like some more evidence, frankly. With that, even if his diagnosis is spot on, he is STILL responsible for hitting that pedestrian and he was still a dick about it. Brain CA doesn’t absolve you of the driving laws.
He has done much that is bad for the world, IMO. While I don’t wish pain and suffering on him, I look forward to the day when he can no longer spew his special brand of nastiness around. If that’s crass and horrid, so be it.
My point is that in the Pit, all should be allowed to express strong feelings, whether those feelings are acceptable or not in polite society or to other posters. This isn’t polite society–this is the Pit. I don’t appreciate being castigated by a supposedly morally superior being such as yourself, cricetus–like WhatExit says, who are you to decide what is offensive to all? If this offends you so much, don’t read it. OR you could look to the emotions behind the words and try to identify with them instead of taking others to task for a failing we all exhibit from time to time.
And whoever posted that Rush Limbaugh didn’t gloat over Ted Kennedy etc–he certainly had no qualms doing so over Michael J Fox. IMO, he knew that mocking Kennedy would go too far, even for his moronic dittoheads. It wasn’t scruples that stopped him, it was calculation.
Let me see here:
-
Dancing on Helms’ grave–not being a jerk
-
Hoping that Tony Snow suffered a slow death-- not being a jerk
-
Glad that Novak has brain cancer-- not being a jerk
-
Parody thread about dancing on Ted Kennedy’s grave-- being a jerk, final straw, one month suspension for the poster.
It seems like in #4, the “being a jerk” rule was not applied as it now is being stated. Once again it is used purely as a “whatever we want to do” rule and it is not applied evenly.
Except not. He was suspended for the “Death penalty for any felony thread,” not for the dancing on Teddy’s grave thread. He got a warning for that thread and was told he’d be suspended if he did it again, and that wasn’t because we have a rule against wishing death on political figures, it’s because it was felt he started that thread just to piss people off. We Nazis demand you not screw up your descriptions of our oppression.
You gonna nitpick? What are you, some kinda Nazi-Nazi?
It used to be worse - when I was a kid, I used to micromanage everybody while we played that Hasbro game with the five dice.
OK, so I am missing something, is this whole thing over a specific poster be suspended?
Two and a Half Inches of Fun. Whose suspension should be almost over, anyways.
Thank you Guinastasia, I guess that does make sense.
- Priceless.
Except one thread was closed, and the others remained open, IIRC. That’s not balance.
Not to rehash this yet again, but one thread was considered trolling and the others weren’t. That was the basis for the closure, not the political slant.
My bad on this one, I did not realize the issue behind the issue. I was only thinking of the threads mentioned, I had no idea this was tied to a suspension and thread closing.
Some people deserve it. Some people don’t. Manson killer, Susan Atkins, is currently dying of brain cancer. Am I allowed to be gratified by that or do I have to feel sorry for her?
That depends - is she seeing ghosts?
Who gives a shit? Do you have an answer for the question?
As good an answer as any to your own question.