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Sir Ralph
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Long live teh Schwampel!
Dec 2001 time: 06:37
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quote: Originally posted by Last Conformist
One might've thought that anyone who gives a flying **** about my opinions would've seen enough of my posting style by now to tell that wasn't serious. |
Yes, that pretty much explains why I missed your humor. 
quote: Please tell me how it's bigotted. As for tolerance, I never claimed to be a particularly tolerant sort. Tolerance isn't a good in itself - it matters a great deal what you're tolerant about. |
I tell you a short story from my youth. Once upon a time I wanted to become a knight in shiny armor, ridding the world from evil and making it a better place. And I was very upset about radicals, skinheads and neonazis, who were demonstrating, beating up people with different opinions and spraying swastikas and fascist slogans. In my rightful anger I loudly stated "Why don't we take some kilometers of barbed wire, set up a camp for that scum and give them a shovel and let them do something useful for a change". An elder, who had heard my outburst of rage, looked at me amused and said: "And this makes you different from them how?" I think he taught me a thing or two in this day.
quote: You did not answer the question, BTW; "giving someone the benefit of the doubt" doesn't mean anything in context. |
I did. I wrote "I wasn't sure (...if it was meant to fight bigotry and intolerance...), but I gave your the benefit of the doubt.
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