I took Hentor’s use of the phrase “got the bends” to be metaphorical, in the sense of something being damaged by progressing too quickly. I didn’t necessarily think it was a direct quote of your own words. Or perhaps your referring to a distinction among the legal acknowledgement of civil rights, actions by minorities to exercise those rights, and legislative action (like school busing) to put those rights into widespread practice. That’s a pretty fine distinction to draw. Any confusion over that is most likely a misunderstanding rather than a deliberate attempt to impugn your judgement.
Plus, Hentor doesn’t have your track record of blatant refusal to accept the obvious. If I noticed him doing it often, I’d be more inclined to call him out on it.
I always enjoy the “I have more important things to do” post (familiar from numerous debates with woo-ites), which gains in hilarity from the knowledge that the poster using this ploy habitually spends abundant amounts of time in such threads before exiting in a huff.
He might blunder into young people fucking in the mud, or something equally demonstrative of the decline of America as he sees it, such as black people standing up for themselves.
He really has no clue how nasty and condescending his attitude to black people is, does he?
You know what Starving Artist reminds me of? A character from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: a total deluded narcissist, one who occasionally has an ounce of common sense or even a bit of decency, but what little there is buried under sheer douche baggery. Any goodness (e.g. a hint of good SDMB citzenry) that might emerge is lost in a swamp of personality disorders, banal self-centeredness, inane ranting, rampant delusional fantasies, and a rude intolerance of anything that challenges a very narrow yet warped world view. Not one of the regulars, though. He lacks even that minimal appeal. SA is a one-off character from that show, only appearing to make the others look slightly better by comparison.
If he’s such a poor, put upon, conservative who’s tired of being persecuted, why doesn’t he just go to Free Republic already? Seriously, he’d fit right in.
So much for “water off of a duck’s back”, amiright?
He probably does. Often on FR, posters tell tales of how they got into this debate with one or more liberals and totally won. I can see SA hopscotching over there to tell stories of his travails and triumphs and how he schooled everyone.
