Greenwald: Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

[sabrina 1]

133. Well, I don't want to be rude, but my comment was not made out of concern for you.

I assume you are doing okay and there is no need for me to be concerned.

My concern is that GG linked to DU, a board that represents the Dem Party to demonstrate a point he made about the sorry state of political discourse and how low it has sunk on the 'left'. And it did not take much effort to find a perfect example.

My suggestion was, since this issue has come up before on other blogs when something like this has happened, that people refrain from using epithets in their subject lines especially if they are connected to a famous name. If you feel the need to call people names, you could do so in the body of the post, rather than in the subject line. For the sake of the Board and the rest of us who really do not want to be respresented by such childish behavior.

I understand that you feel you don't need to consider that. But you were not the recipient of the negative reaction by credible people whose opinions are valuable to a blog like this. DU was.

No one knows or cares who you are, to most people you are, like the rest of us, just one of hundreds of thousands of other anonymous posters on the internet flinging poo, an activity online that is as old as the internet. But blogs that do not want to be viewed as cesspools of the worst of the internet have taken pains to keep that kind of language out of their headlines so that they will be taken seriously.

Take it or leave it. If you don't care about DU's rep, sure you can do as you please. I would love to call a few people unprintable names, but it's not my blog and out of respect for those whose blog it is, I just have to control myself.