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"This week I have mostly knee jerked to..."
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Dear AB Ed,
With so many readers apparently having nothing better to do but spend their days combing newspapers for things to get offended about (extra delight is apparently extracted if there is an opportunity to blame whatever trivial matter they've chosen to be offended about on 'Lily livered liberals', and the truth of the situation appears to be of secondary consequence - facts tend to get in the way of the righteous apoplexy they enjoy so much), isn't it about time that they had their own section where they can sit around congratulating themselves on how un-PC they are, and reminisce about mythic versions of England without bothering the rest of us?
Perhaps you could call it 'Daily Mail Island'? They always seem to enjoy it when I make reference to that.
With so many readers apparently having nothing better to do but spend their days combing newspapers for things to get offended about (extra delight is apparently extracted if there is an opportunity to blame whatever trivial matter they've chosen to be offended about on 'Lily livered liberals', and the truth of the situation appears to be of secondary consequence - facts tend to get in the way of the righteous apoplexy they enjoy so much), isn't it about time that they had their own section where they can sit around congratulating themselves on how un-PC they are, and reminisce about mythic versions of England without bothering the rest of us?
Perhaps you could call it 'Daily Mail Island'? They always seem to enjoy it when I make reference to that.
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I know, Waldo, that you and I do not see eye to eye about many things, but I am totally with you on this one.
I myself stopped responding to threads on politics, law and morality here long ago because, whilst many people on AnswerBank appear keen to comment on such matters, pitifully few of them seem capable of doing so with a genuine grasp of the facts or openness of mind.
Indeed, the News category of AB, in terms of both questions and answers, appears nowadays to be little more than a supplement of The Daily Mail, as you suggest. That is, it is awash with the same ill-informed mantras or puerile and biased inanities, many of them clearly bordering on the demented. (No names, no pack-drill!)
In the face of such invincible ignorance and bigotry, the only rational response is...silence. So, until the standard of discussion rises to, say, "university quadrangle level" rather than its current all-too-common "primary playground level" - a prospect for which I hold out little hope - I shall continue to abstain.
By that token, the above is all I shall have to say on this thread.
I agree with you Waldo - fab idea. Plus, it who help otherwise reasonably smart people like me from falling for it so often! I was fooled twice last week and feel a prize idiot for it. I really should know better by now! Still, I have my radar switched on now - but a RightBank for the RightBankers would be a good idea - (TCL - was pmsl when I read your post above!)
I' m not bothered if someone is a rightbanker or a leftbanker - as long as they can give properly thought-out and coherent arguments to support their stance! Contributors who just read and accept the inflammatory nonsense printed in certain daily newspapers, without thinking it through, questioning it and trying to take a broader view is what bugs me. Ok, off soapbox now and onto the Cab Sav!
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