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Originally posted by sgtclub
To AG:
. . . I never made a direct attack towards you. I said DEMS, in general, as in the actual politicians and operatives out there. I never told you how to "feel" about 9/11 or that you didn't feel it as deeply as I or anybody else did. You are simply reading this in to my post. What I did say was that the left and right view 9/11 differently, the right viewing it as war, the left more like a crime. Perhaps the word "petty" was a bit gratuitous, but I don't think conceptusally I really said anything that many on the left haven't said before.
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Actually club, you said that Democrats view the 9/11 attacks as a petty crime, which has changed nothing. I noticed the comment too, and thought it was a fairly crappy thing to say, but chalked it up as a piece of particularly nasty hyperbole that you didn't really mean.
Given the standard shorthand used on the Board, you should certainly have expected that the posters here who are "on the left" might have thought that the comment was intended to apply to them.
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Originally posted by sgtclub
If what I said crossed any line, then this is certainly not a board on which I want to post. I'll let others judge, and will gladly leave. But one thing I will not do is apologize. You can kiss my ass you whinly little bitch.
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Now this part I don't understand, except as an emotional response of your own.
You "crossed a line" only if you consider this to be a Board where people generally try not to unleash personally offensive attacks upon each other. You say that you did not intend to do so, and I believe you. Nonetheless, what you said offended AG greatly as a personal attack. On such issues, your compadres on the Board are (within the limits of reasons) like the proverbial "eggshell plaintiff" -- you take them as they come.
No one ever suggested, or would suggest, that there is any reason for you not to post upon the Board. However, I don't understand why you would refuse to even offer an apology.
It seems to me that one of the principal tenets of civility, and of being a gentleman, is a desire to avoid needlessly (and certainly unintentionally) giving offense. It also seems that, when one has unintentionally given offense through word or deed, it is appropriate to offer a sincere apology.
From what I've read of this exchange, I think you could come up with a pretty good apology/explanation that you really meant -- and it would not be out of place. [You might want to leave out the "whiny little bitch" part, though.]
S_A_M
