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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]New poster.

This thread is so perfect.  You guys on the left just cannot help but being jackasses to a conservative poster.

You just can't shut yourself up and be civil.  [/quote]

Thank you for modeling civility perfectly: by calling everyone "jackasses". 
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Jeff,

I presume you've read all the posts in this thread.  I'm not sure why you expect a conservative poster here to be a doormat for the ugliness of the liberal posters.  If you trace my IP address, you know that I am a poster from the right who regularly complains about the uncivil tone in political threads.

I don't become uncivil with people I disagree with until they become that way with me.  When people become offensive I have no problem in calling them jackasses.  You were that way in a thread with me several weeks ago and I stand by the insults I made to you.  You started the insulting comments with me in that thread.

Enough with the sanctimony.      [/quote]

So, what you are saying is that you are not opposed to incivility -- indeed, you proudly engage in it yourself. You are simply opposed to incivility directed at you and people you perceive to be like you.

Do you believe that reacting with name-calling to comments you perceive as insulting will lead to greater civility? I don't think so, myself.
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I proudly refuse to let people who are uncivil to me treat me as a doormat.  I am proud to stand up for myself.  I just explained that I don't throw the first punch.  You know that is the case.

I did not say that when I insult a liberal who has first insulted me, that I am doing something that leads to greater civility.  Don't pretend I said that.  Is the guy who beats up a bully "advancing civility"?  Of course not, he has another purpose in beating up the bully. One purpose in returning the insult is to call attention to the initial insult.  You guys throw them out so loosely that it seems you sometimes are not even aware how insulting you regularly are to conservatives here.  (that is the plural "you")  [/quote]

May I be the welcome you to the internet?  Please, make yourself at home.  You will find a great deal of information.  Please note, however, that roughly 270 million people in North America have access to the internet, and it is quite common for people to behave badly in posting.  You may be tempted to react in kind, which may lead to a phenomenon known as a "flame war".   Alternatively, you could choose to either ignore the posters behaving badly, or call them out, without engaging in the same behavior.    Within the limits, if any, imposed by the forum's "administrator", it's really up to you to decide.
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Hi friend.  Thanks for the condescending note!  Thanks for confirming what I've just spent several posts talking about.  I had no idea about all of those fascinating pieces of information you provided.  Thank you for helping out a stupid ol' conservative!  [/quote]

That post does not call you stupid.  You seem to have an extremely thin skin for someone hanging out on an anonymous message board.[/quote]

See...this is what you guys have done multiple times in this thread (and many others).  You post this paragraph that obviously implies that I am totally ignorant about message boards.  It implies I don't have a clue about things such as flame wars.  It does so in a condescending way.  That is undeniable.

Then when I point out that you implied these things by referring to "a stupid ol' conservative" you say..but I didn't call you stupid.  I can read, pal.  I know what you did and did not actually write.  I can also comprehend the impications beyond the words themselves.  That is my whole point in this thread.  You guys inuslt conservatives, explicitly and often implicitly.  When you are called on the implicit insults, you revert to the words themselves, abandoning what you actually meant.

It is ridiculous.

I'm not thin skinned.  I simply wish these threads were not as full of reflexive insults.  If I moderated, I would delete stuff that was insulting and not on topic, but I don't moderate here.  I just post stuff once in a while.  [/quote]

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