From: jarthur@bnr.ca (John Thompson)
Newsgroups: alt.war.vietnam
Subject: Re: ignorance
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:46:13 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx.

In article <C0IGo5.C15@cs.uiuc.edu> drk@cs.uiuc.edu (David Kohr) writes:
>
>In article <1ihu8nINNok4@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> Monte Olsen
><olsenm@ucs.orst.edu> writes:
>>Judging by the previous post, it's fairly obvious to me that the mindless
>>appelation should fall on your shoulders, not Drieux's. 
>
>If my postings are "mindless", why don't you show me some factual or
>logical errors or some other kind of "mindlessness" in them to make your
>point?
>
>>Isn't it interesting that each time he asks you to think beyond the
>>boundaries you seem to have established for your own, narrow, little mind,
>>you take umbrage.
>
>I "take umbrage" at drieux's cowardly, unsubstantiated, childish
>accusations, such as this one:
>
>	ps: not that I would EVER suggest that there are Historical
>	Revisionists in our midst.
>
>which he doesn't even take the trouble to back up.

Got to you, did it Dave?

Perhaps the least of your endearing traits is your pretense at intellectual
superiority.  You seem to think you're entitled to play by a different set of
rules.  For instance, you are free to interpret what others may say, but
you must be taken literally.  Where did drieux's post, factually, say you
are the Historical Revisionist?

>
>Now if I were to post an equally cowardly and puerile insult, such as:
>
>	Not that I would EVER suggest that there are Killers of Vietnamese
>	Babies in our midst.
>
>as a hateful indirect reference to the VN Vets who read this newsgroup,
>would you "take umbrage" at that?  (I am only putting this forth as an
>example, and do *not* mean it to be taken seriously at all.) 
>
>I also "take umbrage" at people who hurl insults ("narrow, little mind"),
>as you have just done.

Is it your position that anyone who states the opinion that you have a
narrow, little mind is hurling insults, but that your accusing someone of
cowardly behavior is all right?  You recently were all atwitter because
someone said FUCK YOU to you, but you feel perfectly free to use phrases
which are far more profane to VN vets.

>
>On top of that, I pointed out serious, obvious logical errors in drieux's
>posting (they are usually riddled with them).  Do you have a problem with
>this?  Do you think it's reasonable to silently accept a statement by
>drieux which is obviously wrong?
>
>>Why don't you grow up, mature a little or shut up.
>>
>>Monte
>
>"Grow up" and "mature a little"?  Why don't you point out what is so
>immature about my posting?  Are you willing to say the same to people like
>drieux who preface their postings with infantile idiocies such as:
>
>	Ok Happy Kampfers....
>
>As for "shut up", that sounds to me like outright censorship.

Whereas your telling someone not to post because they use language which
is offensive to you is not?

Just because your posting is so whiny and full of contradictions, it doesn't
mean you're immature, any more than being able to spell correctly and use
words of more than two syllables means you're not an asshole!
>-- 
>Dave Kohr     CS Graduate Student     Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>Work: 3244 DCL, (217)333-6561  Home: (217)359-9350  E-mail: drk@cs.uiuc.edu
>                   "One either has none or not enough."


John Thompson
jarthur@jamatx.lonestar.org
Newsgroups: alt.war.vietnam