Had you been willing to provide these cites in the original thread, instead of coyly making your comparison, I never would have stepped in. I don’t say I would have been convinced, but I would never have felt you were being a fucking clown.
However, let me re-iterate: I spoke up to call you on your bullshit comparison of An Gadai. You said this:
And when you got called on the implicit comparison where your sentence was crafted to leave the reader considering that An Gadai was a Holocaust denying asshole, you said you’d never said any such thing.
Which is where I stepped in. I offered you a completely parallel sentence, where-in I didn’t call you a fucking clown. I’ll admit that the coda to my post did call you one, but it was simple repetition to make it clear that I am willing to own the insults I throw out. I said nothing in that other thread about Irish history. Given my own tastes, Irish history is something I’ve only encountered as an adjunct to subjects more dear to my heart. The Irish have not been a naval power, after all.