--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Cecil, > > There was no need to berate Helga publicly. Helga > has no claims to being the literati of Goa. She had > merely written a witty post on the subject of > inculcating our culture in second-generation expats. > Mario observes: > I see a new "third-party" sensitivity displaying itself on Goanet? > For the second time this week I see one Goanetter [first Roland and now Selma] haranging or berating a second Goanetter [first Mario and now Cecil] for haranging or berating a third Goanetter {first Albert and now Helga] for something they had posted. > In the meantime, there have been no signs that the alleged targets of the alleged original harangues [Albert and then Helga] had taken any umbrage, obviously because they are class acts and took their harangues in the positive and affectionate spirit of camaraderie in which the original harangues were issued by Mario and Cecil. > Cecil and I don't harangue anyone who is not worthy of a good friendly harangue, and very occasionally someone who deserves an unfriendly harangue:-)) > We are more often used to seeing those who felt haranged or berated spiritedly answer or defend themselves and counter-harangue or counter-berate the person who had haranged or berated them. Now we are seeing what can only be described as "umbrage by proxy":-)) > This is an open worldwide free-for-all - well, almost - forum. In my never humble opinion, people in such a forum can opine all they like and harangue all they like, even spread propaganda like mad and attack religion and even passionately advance the absurd notion an epitome of evil was a Christian in good standing. It is up to others to counter-opine and counter-harangue and point out the absurdities, all in the spirit of free speech that some have given their lives to defend and others take for granted. > BTW, the "umbrage by proxy" is also fair play [everything is fair play on Goanet unless the FOUR BIG KAHUNAS declare it "off-topic" or "over-the-top"], and no one should interpret this as yet another harangue, rather just a passing observation:-)) >
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