"Potentially mobbish situation"? Where the hell did you get that from? He was standing in front of a perfectly well behaved audience with a ton of security people around him. There was no "potentially mobbish situation."
And don't you dare lecture me about free speech. I'm a *huge* advocate of free speech. But just because I agree that people have the RIGHT to say what they want, I still don't have to respect their opinions. If some politician wants to claim that homosexuality is immoral and should be illegal, I'll defend his right to say it, but there's no way in hell that I'm going to respect that bullshit. And if some jerk wants to accuse my best friend of being a bitch, I'll defend his right to say it, but again, there's no way in hell that I'm going to respect that opinion. And if James Marsters says something that I find rude, condescending, and sexist, then he has every right to say it, and I sure as hell don't have to respect it.
I'm not asking you to respect my opinion. I'm asking you to debate my OPINION instead of attacking me as a PERSON, which plenty of people are doing. (And which I NEVER did; my comments are about James Marsters' opinion, not about the man as a person).
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Date: 2003-06-10 09:36 pm (UTC)And don't you dare lecture me about free speech. I'm a *huge* advocate of free speech. But just because I agree that people have the RIGHT to say what they want, I still don't have to respect their opinions. If some politician wants to claim that homosexuality is immoral and should be illegal, I'll defend his right to say it, but there's no way in hell that I'm going to respect that bullshit. And if some jerk wants to accuse my best friend of being a bitch, I'll defend his right to say it, but again, there's no way in hell that I'm going to respect that opinion. And if James Marsters says something that I find rude, condescending, and sexist, then he has every right to say it, and I sure as hell don't have to respect it.
I'm not asking you to respect my opinion. I'm asking you to debate my OPINION instead of attacking me as a PERSON, which plenty of people are doing. (And which I NEVER did; my comments are about James Marsters' opinion, not about the man as a person).