re: #169 Summer

It was your entire accusatory tone.

If you aren’t accusing me of it, then fine, and I apologize and I’ll drop it now. I’m fairly exhausted from packing all day and I’d like to get some sleep.

Yeah, judging by tone on the internet leads you into bad places.

What happened to ‘avatars’ when they were pointed out to Google is not comparable to what happened to Jews when they were pointed out to the Germans. On that level alone, it was a bad image to use. That the image also includes a stereotypical picture of a Jew— something that is offensive on the face of it— and that you didn’t need that image to make your point but simply included it to give it more punch, takes it quite over the line of what I think is smart.

I don’t, however, think that I was incautious. You may think so, but I do not see it that way. I made a point with the graphic, and it was widely accepted and praised as the right one.

I really don’t care how many people liked it. I’m telling you I don’t. Telling me a lot of other people did doesn’t affect that.

It had the effect I wanted it to have which, in my book, qualified it as a success. Too bloody right that it was disturbing, but that was the entire point.

That logic could be used to justify anything, though.