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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Well, here we go, case in point. Mr. Farrington's response and tone speaks for itself. No, you don't have the authority to stop anyone from saying anything, but I can tell you, if we were talking face to face and you spoke to me like that, you would certainly shut the conversation down in a moment, And asking me to look up a word is terribly patronizing. That would shut down the conversation pretty quickly too. I don't need to look up the meaning of the words I use, I know what they mean before I use them. </div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: arial,helvetica; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This is why I very rarely say anything on TownTalk.</div>
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From: Andrew Farrington <skilletfries@yahoo.com><br>
To: Euniverz <euniverz@aol.com>; towntalk <towntalk@riverdale-park.org><br>
Sent: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 9:58 am<br>
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Cafritz vote<br>
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<div><SPAN>You should really look up ad hominem.</SPAN></div>
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<div>My friends gave up hundreds of hours working hard on something they really think is good for their town. I disagreed, and disagreed so strongly that I mobilized. I carried petitions, I went to meetings, I sent emails, I worked <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">hard </SPAN><SPAN>against this. Because I disagreed, and strongly. However</SPAN>, saying that their work was a public-relations dog-and-pony show. Is. EXTREMELY. Offensive. Saying so is not an attack, and it didn't close down anything. Guess what? I do not have the authority to keep anyone from saying anything. But when you insult my friends, I'm gonna stand up and say how I feel about it. I get to, and I'm not sorry. And, I find your poorly-considered, emotional message ... extremely offensive.<br>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Euniverz <<A href="mailto:euniverz@aol.com">euniverz@aol.com</A>><br>
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<div>I'll say it publicly,</div>
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<div>I usually keep my opinions to myself, or at least I don't share them here anymore, because bullying and bashing is all too common on this list and frankly, who needs it? Just because you prefaced your statement by saying "you're allowed to feel that way", which I find highly patronizing, you don't get to hurl ad hominem attacks and close down open discourse like that.</div>
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<div>She didn't say anything wrong or offensive. Me thinks thou doth protest too much.</div>
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I myself most decidedly did not say any of those mean things. I did not bash
you. I said simply that I found your remarks about "the politicians" and their
motives offensive. This was prefaced by saying you're allowed to feel that
way and say so.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but *you* bashed. I said, roughly, "Hey now,
they don't deserve that, and it's mean." And now I'm getting
private mail calling me a meanie and you're getting public mail saying
you're being bashed. There's actually a lot of this, on this list.
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