It's amazing. Really. Some people just have the inability to handle controversial subjects or commentaries (short of calling people names or slanderous innuendos) in discussion forums. I've never really participated much in AllDeaf until recently and decided to give it a serious whirl for the last few weeks. It was mostly in the area of politics or other sensitive issues. I knew going in that it is the Land of the Liberals (hint) and I was expected to get labeled fairly quickly ranging from getting called a bigot, racist, homophobic and even sexist. All laughable charges. I guess it goes with the territory when it comes to discussion forums of wide ranging opinions.Then soon it really got amusing.
Some didn't know how to deal with my comments or how to respond to my questions, the one liners started to flow like fine wine (or would that be whine?) and the moderators started to wag their fingers and complaining how hard it was to "baby sit" participants of AD. It was almost the same kind of responses in other similar Deaf managed forums. All except for one, Deafreedom, a deaf managed forum. It is a shining example of what tolerance looks like when it comes to moderating forums and the people who comment there.
My nature is to challenge prevaling and popular thoughts on current issues. Not about mudslingings and ad homenim attacks or with subtle and slanderous suggestions implying something for the sake of appearing, um, "intellectual." I was hoping for honest and challenging debates. Instead of dealing with a Calvin like the character in the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes. So, who or what is Calvin? Well, Calvin is an impulsive, sometimes overly creative, imaginative, energetic, curious, intelligent, often selfish, rude, and a usually bad-tempered six-year-old (from the description in Wikipedia). Oooh, the irony of life.
I guess my expectation was a wee-bit too high knowing full well I'd be stepping into the Land of the Liberals mush. And if people wanted answers, I'd give it to them straight rather than dally around giving out non-answers, using the patented bob-and-weave responses, innuendos, and constant one liners all in the effort to appear to have a command of their intellectual faculties. Or come up with some psycho-babble nonsense with non-answers in the effort to appear like a certified psychologist. Or secretly have an ax to grind against me at a subconcious level over some challange I made 2 years ago when I requested that a deaf person to call me claiming he could use the phone without any problems. And the person was promptly cornered. That's when I learned that exaggerations and hyperboles is the name of the game. Sometimes.
Yet, I despise any form of intellectual dishonesty when it comes to discussions or debates. It's just like driving on the highway, you have your passive-aggressive driver who purposely drive slow for the express purpose to "pay back" and annoy drivers behind them and claim innocence saying that the driving was within the speed limit. But we know better, don't we? Or maybe more accurately it's like being a victim in a drive by shooting tossing out vicious one liners for no apparent rhyme or reason. Although some cried "Uncle!" and ran to the moderators because somebody got offended over something so minor. So, "Run to Mommy" must be the answer nowadays.
Yet, most participants are able to suck it up and go with the flow. And that's good. But apparently there were a few people who simply do not have the capacity to handle strongly opinionated comments and must resort to the lowly common denominator of one liner attacks. But for some strange reasons moderators of AD thought I provoked, enticed, or trolled for responses even though questions I had were legitimate and my opinions were genuine. Nice to hear those "facts." Apparently AD moderators never met me and somehow they've gotten their sensibilities challenged. I'm sure AD is nice. No doubts. Lots of subjects to peruse and participate in. I'll just wait until my ban is up tomorrow based on their "facts" about what I did. A measley one day ban with two others who got banned as well. Nothing to worry about. It'll be fun once I'm in again. A little experiment of mine that began a few months back to last about 6 months to show just how prevalent liberal thinkings are. They don't call me Kokonut Pundit for nothing.
