Claire Swazey
Spokeshole, fence sitter
Who has said that it was not allowed? You can post whatever you want. However, you don't have the right to post pro-tech, pro-LRH, or revisionist Scn history on an ex-Scientologist message board and not expect to get a bucket full of crap hurled your way.
You are also stirring the pot and started it up with XB. Was that necessary? Does every single poster who faces pushback require that you jump in and defend them?
You may consider it to be "stirring the pot" but that's your dealio.
I felt XB was posting a sort of psychoanalysis- or maybe that's too loaded a term, connotatively speaking. Let's say that I thought he was posting a comment about another contributor that was negative and that was analyzing that person, and that I felt it just happens too often. So I said so.
I notice that you're saying things to me, too. See? That happens here. You're posting about somebody getting pushback. See? That happens here.
As far as what's allowed, I did not say that it was forbidden. I pointed out that it was not forbidden. I question your use of the second person in sentence #1.
And, no, nobody should be giving anyone a bucket of crap on the internet. Countering a posted opinion, sure. Throwing crap at someone is a different thing. Interesting that you felt that somebody was tossing crap. Your words, not mine.
I'm for equal speech but I don't condone giving people crap or posting ad homs, including telling people that they've got stuff wrong with them. That ain't cool and nobody's gonna tell me it is. If you have a problem with my defending people and then you follow suit, well...
I see a lot of posts about how it's not ok to post pro Scn stuff on this board. I've been seeing it for years. Here's what I think:
It isn't right to post pro Scn stuff here
It isn't wrong to post pro Scn stuff here
It isn't right to post anti Scn stuff here
It isn't wrong to post anti Scn stuff here
The forum owner decides what is allowed here. There are boards that do not allow pro Scn stuff on their boards, or there have been. Know what? I think it's great.
There are boards that don't allow anti Scn stuff on their boards. Know what? I think it's great.
The only things I don't think are great are people (who are not forum owners) who have a problem with opposing/unusual/minority views on a board wherein such views are not prohibited; and writing stuff about what kinds of people other contributors are and other hostile ad hom stuff.
Honestly, why not throw a total whoppin' can o' whuppass totally rebutting pro Scn viewpoints without throwing crap at people or saying that they shouldn't say those things?
I have defended people on this thread. And I also - if you saw it- expressed great disagreement with the thread op about his thoughts re Paulette Cooper. What's more, I did so more than once. That would have, perhaps, been a far more relevant and worthy thing for you to comment upon, if you and I actually had to interact on this thread...