[Rhodes22-list] Re: List etiquette. Inflammatory rhetoric

[Herb Parsons]

Well, since you've decided to make our private conversation public, I'll respond publicly:

To all (including Saroj):

My reference to Saroj as a "bitch" in no way questioned her sexual proclivities or her ancestry. My reference was as one who complains without cause and out of ignorance. One who sails is a sailor. One who bitches is a bitch.

If anyone received the statement in any other way, I apologize for my misinterpreted statement, but NOT for the sentiment.

Misconstruing one's personal beliefs is a personal attack, whether it is couched in politically correct language or not. I have never "met" more intelligent, well meaning people than some of those I've met on here. At the same time, I've never met more ignorant, close-minded, hateful people that some of those that I've met on here. I'll leave it up to the list to decide which individuals fit into which categories.


Herb Parsons

S/V O'Jure
  1976 O'Day 25
  Lake Grapevine, N TX

S/V Reve de Papa
  1971 Coronado 35
  Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast

>>> <R22RumRunner at aol.com> 10/1/2005 11:09:09 AM >>>
Herb.
I'm not going to debate this with you. Calling Saroj a "bitch" is  
unacceptable. Having an intelligent discussion is acceptable. We all agree that  we 
don't all agree, but can discuss it without inflammatory rhetoric. Telling  
someone to "fuck off" is acceptable bar language. Name calling is not. It will  get 
you into a fight in any bar I've ever been in and that's why I stay out of  
bars. The more I drink the worse my vocabulary becomes and I end up doing things 
 I might later consider stupid.
 
Rummy