Posted by Willful on December 23, 2010, at 1:17:51
In reply to Re: Lou's reminder --) Dr Bob » Willful, posted by PartlyCloudy on December 22, 2010, at 15:00:13
One reason I didn't go into any details other than to say that the subject was anti-semitism was that I didn't want to look it up to be more certain of my recollection.
I do remember a lot of what was in that thread, as I read it years ago, when I first came here and even at that time, Lou was posting attempts to cite or link to refutations of the ideas that were expressed. So I read some of the original posts,. While I remember fragments of it now, I don't have the details nailed down, so I would have to refresh my recollection to say more about it. Since I found it disturbing then I really didn't want to search for it, or reread it.
Also I didn't want to stir things up more than to say the topic was anti-semitism. I thought the issue had been satisfactorily resolved by Bob at the time-- and didn't want to stir things up myself by going into it more now either.
But actually unnecessary discussions of anti-semitism seem so inflammatory-- stirring up lots of animus among people without resolving anything. It's just an upsetting topic to me, and unless something would be accomplished by invoking it, I personally would rather not. Lou has been alluding to and asking to bring up the original issue for years-- because for him it wasn't resolved, I guess, emotionally. And he would apparently get some meaning from having more done to sanction the no longer posting poster-- as well as being able to discuss the issue and be vindicated in some way.
I think I would find anything that would be posted now on that old discussion to be deeply disheartening-- which I find racial slurs and insults of all types-- and gender or sexual prefernce put downs-- or other things like that, which are making people reexperience a lot of bad experiences or feelings about themselves. As I said, there to me needs to be a good reason for this.
And I 'm convinced that Bob would have no intention of going back and revisiting this, as he' s been in essence making clear for years by refusing to let anything more be brought up about it here.by engaging as he has in the long-running sequence of years of notifications about notifications.
At least this is my understanding of what's going on. I hope this explains my feelings somewhat better
Willful
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