I understand your confusion.
In my defense, if you look through the thread and paw through the comments made by others, you’ll find that roughly half the comments that address this issue say something like “Well, the Pit is the place for this conversation”… The other half says “If you wanted an honest discourse, why didn’t you post in XXX?”
Fact is, the people on this thread have, for the most part, shown themselves to be as equally as “hateful” as they accuse me of being. They can’t even agree where this simple subject is supposed to go, but they sure can congratulate themselves on being soooo witty, smart and outright hostile to someone like me…
All for the sake of an opinion.
Which is worse? To dislike a group of people because of their very real actions as a group (and do nothing to them), or to heap piles of abuse on someone because they have a differing opinion?
And this coming from the ‘We can all get along’ crowd… apparently, the hypocracy of accepting everyone, except for those who don’t share your worldview, is lost on almost everyone here…
At least I’m up front about how I feel… I don’t hide behind the rhetoric of multiculturalism and acceptance and tolerance, then spew venom when I come across someone with a different opinion.
I’m debating whether I’m going to continue with this thread…
It seems to have devolved into a “fuck you” festival, with the serious posters in the tiny minority… the rest are content with hurling insults, accusations, aspersions and outright bald-faced hatred (there’s that hypocracy again)… which is not what I started out trying to achieve, nor what I want to submit myself to…
I’m going to go pull some fenceposts and string some fence… I’ll let you know what I decide, one way or the other.