Trying to be even-handed
May. 13th, 2004 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
addersljPeople who followed yesterday's debate on political tribalism, and who don't have ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eyebeams as a friend, might want to swing by his journal and check out a post explaining why he unfriended me.
The only comment I can make, really, is that he's still responding to what he thinks I said and his expectations of my attitudes, rather that what I actually believe. It's a fascinating rebuttal he's posted - but it's a rebuttal of something else entirely. He also seems to remain unaware that accusing me of having a hidden agenda, and a lack of comprehension of other people's attitudes could be considered "various snide insults" all by themselves, or, at the very least, extremely patronising and insulting.
It's a shame, but if people will only engage with what they assume your "hidden message" is, then any meaningful discussion is impossible. I also find the decision to lay out an attack on my assumed position without direct facility for reply revealing.
Ah well, go check it out, and form your own opinions based on the evidence, rather than making the evidence fit your opinions. That's all I was advocating anyway. I mean, perhaps the evidence does show that I was being a complete ass, and I'm just too close to see it. :-)
That's all I've got to say on that subject.
eyebeams as a friend, might want to swing by his journal and check out a post explaining why he unfriended me.The only comment I can make, really, is that he's still responding to what he thinks I said and his expectations of my attitudes, rather that what I actually believe. It's a fascinating rebuttal he's posted - but it's a rebuttal of something else entirely. He also seems to remain unaware that accusing me of having a hidden agenda, and a lack of comprehension of other people's attitudes could be considered "various snide insults" all by themselves, or, at the very least, extremely patronising and insulting.
It's a shame, but if people will only engage with what they assume your "hidden message" is, then any meaningful discussion is impossible. I also find the decision to lay out an attack on my assumed position without direct facility for reply revealing.
Ah well, go check it out, and form your own opinions based on the evidence, rather than making the evidence fit your opinions. That's all I was advocating anyway. I mean, perhaps the evidence does show that I was being a complete ass, and I'm just too close to see it. :-)
That's all I've got to say on that subject.
