As I pointed out the other day, most of us here would know Barry's use
of "babies" in that phrase meant grown-ups behaving like babies. Only
warped minds would have thought otherwise. Maybe their diapers need
changing.
On 01/02/2015 09:13 AM, curtisdeltabl...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Do you really not see the distinction between Barry using that phrase
to make his point in a dramatic way or someone posting as you have,
expressing your opinion about his word choice compared to taking it
out of context to accuse him of real illegal acts with real people in
his life?
I will give you credit for more intelligence than to think that what
Jim is doing has anything to do with protecting children.
You are welcome to express your complete outrage at his word choices.
Go for it, that is what the place is for. But what Jim is doing makes
it unsafe to post here.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.mae50@...> wrote :
Geezus....BW is the one who wrote those three words....heinous and
illegal....the fact that those three words were even able to be
generated in his consciousness is disturbing and disturbed ALL, is my
guess, on some level, except those that are unable to *feel.*
And, now for some reason, it's the person who most vociferously
opposed those three words and the person who wrote them in writing
that is being attacked? Get a grip, get real. BW can issue an
apology at any time; it isn't too late, yet, for him to take a little
accountability for himself.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
Two issues. Our opinions about what people want to post about here,
and a clear line of safety concerning certain content meant to hurt
people's reputation offline.
Calling someone an assclown is an entirely different insult than
accusing someone of illegal activity. And it is even more critical for
a topic like child welfare where people can lose their rational minds
and go after someone ala Salem witch trial.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <j_alexander_stanley@...> wrote :
I think that people who continued slinging insults at Jim, even after
he'd left, demonstrate just as much addiction to conflict online. BOTH
sides need to get the fuck over each other.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote :
Jim's post is a serious breach of the FFL guidelines and provides a
chilling precedent for online slander meant to cause harm to someone
in their real life. I hope anyone who agrees will first delete the
slanderous message in the post before commenting.
This is way over the line. I almost commented when Jim used a heading
with an inflammatory statement just as Nabbie did in his little FU to
FFL when he left. I believe it was maliciously intended to get the
newsgroup in trouble with Yahoo. But this post is clearly meant to
hurt Barry in his real life with a phrase taken out of context.
The original context of Barry's hyperbole was to show something so
universally considered heinous, that no one would miss his point that
people in a cult mindset can overlook what is WRONG. In context it
refers to cultural norms and reinforces them concerning child welfare.
The intended use was obvious. For Jim to take it out of its context
as if it revealed something else is a chilling use of
misinterpretation to hurt someone's reputation online. Having been he
victim of this myself here I understand how helpless you can feel when
this is going on. I needed Rick's help and I got it, and I greatly
appreciate that support for my free speech in safety here.
I also want to comment on this misuse of a serious topic for a
personal vendetta online. It is the lowest form of a get someone at
any cost mentality to use child welfare as a pawn in a gotchya game
online. By trivializing it by using someone's statement out of
context, we add to the static that obscures real harm. People become
numb to the accusation when it is misused this way. And in that
maliciously generated cacophony, we miss real harm done to real kids
by real bad people. I am against Jim's misappropriation of this topic
on these grounds also. To pretend his malicious misuse of what Barry
wrote is in support of child welfare is the sickest kind of cynicism.
Hiding behind this topic to do harm to someone else here is disgusting.
Finally, both Buck and Jim have demonstrated that all their faux
objections to contentious exchanges here are just that. They are both
addicted to conflict online and must leave their other forum to cause
trouble here. While I find Bucks constant baiting and trolling
obnoxious, it does not violate the reasonable terms of use here. Jim's
post did. It makes this an unsafe place to post our opinions if people
are allowed to make such real life damaging accusations based on
nothing but their own bile and misrepresentation.
I hope this forum will be safe place to post in 2015.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
