[SOC] Purdie...

[Michael Coslo]

On Nov 19, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Ian C. Purdie wrote:

> KD7JYK DM09 wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> I read through all the SOC posts awhile ago.  Nobody else called him on it, 
>> but Mr. Purdie is obviously a racist...  And the worst kind, because he 
>> probably thinks he's being very generous and benevolent towards black 
>> people.
> 
> Kurt,
> 
> I'll defend your right to an opinion. Even one partially right yet, 
> monstrously and offensively wrong in substance.
> 
> You know absolutely nothing of me nor my background. If you did you 
> wouldn't make such a grossly offensive comment.
> 
>> Brilliant, there's no room for that kind of mentality in Amateur Radio.
> 
> I agree 100%, as well as in any other area of human endeavour.
> 
> My only regret?
> 
> I proffered what I believe to have been a simple, sensible report of how 
> your President represented America with great distinction in Australia.


Because you cannot do that any more without a bunch of blowback from people who have a blind innate hatred, and feel the need to express themselves at every juncture.  At the local breakfast meeting, all you have to do is mention someone's  name, and these folk go bonkers. After listening to a ten minute rant this morning, I mentioned Sarah Palin. The frothing at the mouth reply painted me as an unpatriotic, socialist communist abortion encouraging, anti hunting NRA bashing pinko - and worst of all, I was for higher taxes!

And yet I am none of these.

It's just how some folks roll. Even now, blind hatred for a man and by extension the party he represents is eating a lot of people alive, to the point where one of the presidential candidates is calling all the other Republican candidates "Socialists". 

They remind me of the old saying:

"Everyone is crazy except for me and thee, and I'm not so sure about thee".

It's a race to see who can be "more conservative than everyone else", and has reached the point of cognitive dissonance. The individual candidates hate everything and each other.

Anyhow, that's what we have, and the practitioners of the sport are a bit loud. I've seen groups ruined by their antics, to the point where I've put my own groups on moderation on a couple occasions when someone "accidentally"  posts their fringe beliefs., with the resultant meltdowns. Then they return to normal activity.

Rest assured, if you even mention the name of the present POTUS, you will get a lot of over the top replies - there's no other way around that. 

Anyhow, we have  a choice. This place can be a refuge against the present state of the US political world, or it can be an extension of that insanity. I prefer the former, because eventually people just drift away because the group becomes a decidedly unpleasant place, and the crazies eventually get bored and look for another place to ruin.

And yes, we can use filters, no doubt. But when we get to the point of filtering most of the mail, is sort of points out to us that the group in question isn't for us. Will SOC is reach that point?

Then the crazies will raise the victory flag, loudly proclaiming how they chased the wusses away. But the ennui sets in, because they have no more wusses to chase away.

	- 73 de Mike N3LI -