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Deanimator wrote:
I don't think smoking357 is the only bigot on OCDO. Plenty of them around, actually. Bigotry runs with extremism. On the left....on the right. And we, uhm, enjoy the wisdom of some extremists here--same as on any gun/rights site.
Egomaniacal? Sure.
Troll? Not really. Way more like an high-power argumentalist. Few could engage him in toe-to-toe exchanges of logic, knowledge or opinions. Too often, people call people "troll" simply because they disagree with them and don't have the rhetorical ability to effectively point out the "troll's" errors. It's a catch-all term for: I don't like him and I'm not capable enough to argue with him.
Agent provocateur? C'mon. Nobody could be that bubba-ish in some kind of FBI entrapment effort.
As I said before in two recent threads, S357 was making OCDO look bad. Clearly so. That's why John bounced him. S357's cheeky exhortation to start attacking LEOs because"It's time!" done him in.
Any goofball revolutionary/get the cops/are you with me boys? rabble rouser would make OCDO look bad. Extremism always makes your organization look bad. Heck, I think that some of the shoot-first folks we have here also make OCDO and the gun/rights communities look bad--because they are extremist.
I support OCDO. I support John andMike.I support 2A and a right to self-defense.
Still, and I realize that it's not a perfect world and will never be thus, I'm reminded of this quote:
[align=left]If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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[align=left]Justice Louis D. Brandeis[/align]
Deanimator wrote:
PrayingForWar wrote:He was an egomaniacal troll, an agent provocateur or both.He was nothing more than a bigot.
I don't think smoking357 is the only bigot on OCDO. Plenty of them around, actually. Bigotry runs with extremism. On the left....on the right. And we, uhm, enjoy the wisdom of some extremists here--same as on any gun/rights site.
Egomaniacal? Sure.
Troll? Not really. Way more like an high-power argumentalist. Few could engage him in toe-to-toe exchanges of logic, knowledge or opinions. Too often, people call people "troll" simply because they disagree with them and don't have the rhetorical ability to effectively point out the "troll's" errors. It's a catch-all term for: I don't like him and I'm not capable enough to argue with him.
Agent provocateur? C'mon. Nobody could be that bubba-ish in some kind of FBI entrapment effort.
As I said before in two recent threads, S357 was making OCDO look bad. Clearly so. That's why John bounced him. S357's cheeky exhortation to start attacking LEOs because"It's time!" done him in.
Any goofball revolutionary/get the cops/are you with me boys? rabble rouser would make OCDO look bad. Extremism always makes your organization look bad. Heck, I think that some of the shoot-first folks we have here also make OCDO and the gun/rights communities look bad--because they are extremist.
I support OCDO. I support John andMike.I support 2A and a right to self-defense.
Still, and I realize that it's not a perfect world and will never be thus, I'm reminded of this quote:
[align=left]If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
[/align]
[align=left]Justice Louis D. Brandeis[/align]