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- From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: Selective Memory?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.191327.20983@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 19:13:27 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.101257.7714@penet.fi> <MUFFY.92Dec20104631@anableps.berkeley.edu> <BzL1F1.Bqv@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: People's Front of Judea
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- In article <BzL1F1.Bqv@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> dbshapco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Shapcott) writes:
- >
- >After running through this batch of soc.bi, I feel compelled to comment
- >about the general tone of the group. About this insane need to beat up
- >on each other to the detriment of any useful dialogue on real topics, to
- >an apparent love of disqualifying the humanity of others on the flimsiest
- >evidence, and to the flip ego posturing dominating many posts. Well,
- >the first thing I would like to know is, am I the only one that feels this?
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >Weren't we once better than this? Didn't we once make a lot more effort at
- >liking each other? Or is it possible, that being in a different situation,
- >I'm more sensitive to things I used to filter out?
-
- I think most of the worst cases are cross-posts from soc.motss
- (except for the "slave" thread and its spinoffs).
-
- The problem is that soc.bi and soc.motss have similar areas of
- interests but very different cultures. In particular, the level
- of free-floating hostility is much higher on soc.motss. One
- antidote is to put a lot of soc.bi ESacharine in the crossposted
- threads (you know, ESnuggles, ENibbles, etc.). That should drive
- off most of the chronically angry.
-
- This is a problem for some of us; I suppose I might be called an
- EDiabetic, since I have a very low tolerance for ESyrup. Whenever
- someone's post says something like "This is my first post here,
- but" or "What's a muffin, anyway?" I hit 'k' posthaste. And the
- first time I posted here, I said nothing about muffinhood;
- somehow I snuck through unscathed.
- --
- Andrew Solovay
- "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
- I am the freest woman in history."
- --- Camille Paglia
-