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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Totally agree, PP.  Folks are calling the black birder in Central Park threatening for offering treats to a dog, but are bending over backwards to say that this guy was NOT threatening.  SMH.[/quote]

[/b]People have said that what he did is not criminal.  That's different.[b]  And I haven't seen anyone hear say that the birder was acting in a threatening manner.  You are inventing straw men.[/quote]

You're kidding right.

Every other sentence in that thread is 'she felt threatened!' Meanwhile the only thing he did was ask [i]her[/i] to back away and offered her dog treats. Someone even said the treats could be poisoned! Hypocrites.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/883782.page

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I was referring to this thread.  I haven't seen anyone in this thread criticize the birder.  You have no particular reason to believe anyone comment in this thread has made comments in the other.[/quote]

Of course she felt threatened.  He was screaming at her and calling her names. GTFOH.[/quote]

Where did I say she didn't feel threatened?  What I said is that what he did may not be criminal.  Very different things.

Before you tell someone to GTFOH, you should bone up on your critical reading skills.[/quote]

I'm not even sure which incident you're talking about anymore. In the birder incident, there was no reason for the woman to feel threatened.  The guy asked in a calm way and never raised his voice.  In Bethesda, the guy was screaming and calling her names.  VERY DIFFERENT. [/quote]

I agree.  The person at the top of this thread claimed that people were arguing the birder was threatening, while simultaneously trying to argue that the dude in Bethesda was not.

I simply took issue with that for two reasons: (a) no one prior to that poster had mentioned central park at all in this thread and (b) no one said the woman in Bethesda didn't feel threatened.

Saying that his actions may not be criminal doesn't mean that the woman may not have felt threatened.  I was simply pointing out that those two things can't be conflated.[/quote]

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