# I disagree with this warning: **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 28, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-disagree-with-this-warning/677354 "2013-12-28T14:38:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 78
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-disagree-with-this-warning/677354/78 "2014-01-02T22:23:57Z")
I tend to disagree with that. I couldn’t be sure and it’s not impossible that you’re being truthful now, but I tend to think you meant the implication that it had, and were not any sort of innocent victim here. People in this thread have focused on deconstructing the sentence that you quoted in the OP, but what makes it a bit clearer IMO is the paragraph immediately following the one that you quoted. The fuller quote is as follows: > [@A&E suspends Phil Robertson over anti-gay remarks](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-e-suspends-phil-robertson-over-anti-gay-remarks/676747/618): > > You, and the Klan, and Mr. Robertson, and the Revolutionary Maoist Youth League, and Carrot Top, and Rush Limbaugh, and every asshole with an opinion has a legal right to express that opinion. I will tolerate it to the extent that if the government tries to shut you up, I’ll try to stop them. > > But I’ll not waste any time tolerating any fool’s foolishness. And I’ll applaud other people that answer an asshole’s opinion with facts, incisive rebuttals, or even plain old mockery, and I’ll argue vociferously against “tolerating” it, if that means treating the asshole’s opinion as sacred and immune to criticism. The two paragraphs should be viewed as a whole, the point of which was that there are all sorts of fools and assholes out there with opinions that you think should be legal but rebutted. There’s nothing in the second paragraph about anyone who is not a fool or asshole, and looks to me you meant this to include everyone in the first paragraph. If this were not so, there was no reason at all to include the “You” in the first paragraph, since the point of this bit was to say that fools and assholes should only be tolerated legally and not otherwise. That said, if I was a mod I would probably not have warned for this. Too much ambiguity and plausible deniability. A very well done bit of snark. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-disagree-with-this-warning/677354)._