seems appropriate

Though it could use a better mark. Perhaps a zebra with graffiti stripes.

From out of the blue suddenly - fontplayer - nice to see you around again. Can’t wait until the fire begins… :)

Nice photo - welcome back.

peace

> Can’t wait until the fire begins… :)

Greetings, I expect now everyone is calmed down, they will all come to realize, just as I do, how reasonable I actually am.
: )

Oy. Not this again. Didn’t anybody block him?

No blocking unless there’s a defamation campaign (to which you seem to be
closer than him actually). But complaining remains a generally good idea.

hhp

I wish DC had graffiti artists, especially artists that good. We just have a gang of young turks who wander around tagging objects with their names—and they do it badly—in between proclaiming their inability to choose between anarchy and socialism.

There was some serious defamation in some of his previous posts, bordering on hate speech. That’s why I reacted so strongly.

Note my use of “campaign”.

React strongly, please! But blocking is a different beast entirely. Which is not to say I absolutely opposed censorship - quite the contrary, I see a lot of problems with so-called “free speech”, but what a person says and what a person is are different things, and blocking works off the latter.

hhp

I gotcha and I’m opposed to censorship as well. There are plenty on this forum and elsewhere whose opinions I differ with, and I thankfully live in a country where (presumably) these differences are tolerated - and sometimes embraced.

I don’t mean either to advocate blocking Dennis, I just had a wee little hope that someone had maybe actually done it and that was why we hadn’t seen him in awhile... or that he had taken his crackpot intolerance elsewhere. Or that he’d been locked up for waving around those firearms he so fervently advocates.

Tolerance is a two-way street, except for hypocrites. Fortunately there are none of those around here.

Just remember, tolerance and opinions aren’t necesarily linked.

I can even tolerate sinners, since I can’t seem to escape that category myself. But people like to label someone, and then throw on a bunch of baggage they assume goes with the label.

And the only thing I fervently advocate is coffee.
; )

> We just have a gang of young turks who wander around tagging objects with their names

My friend calls that type “the trainees”.

When I was walking down the alley in East LA, I encountered a bunch of the artists working on a wall, and found them to be a well-behaved group of strangely dressed, but clean and polite, young Mexican-American artists. Not threatening at all.

The common misconception about tolerance is that it involves indifference; in fact true tolerance involves willingly living with things you actively and fervently oppose. We saw an unraveling of a deceptive sort of tolerance in the Netherlands after the killing of Fortuyn.

hhp

Our taggers are hardly threatening. Just stupid, and really, really bad at graffiti.

> in fact true tolerance involves willingly living with things you actively and fervently oppose.

Well said.

For a light-hearted example, I fervently dislike talking to people before I’ve had two cups of coffee. But I tolerate their right to go buzzing about as soon as they get out of bed. Just leave me out of it.
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For a light-hearted example, I fervently dislike talking to people before I’ve had two cups of coffee. But I tolerate their right to go buzzing about as soon as they get out of bed. Just leave me out of it.

Hear Hear