I think you're reading and posting to the wrong threads, honestly.

A certain person is being nailed to the proverbial cross right now simply because he holds a view that many people consider to be ignorant and hateful. These are people who would normally consider themselves to be open-minded and tolerant - however, this open-mindedness only seems to tolerate opinions that they agree with.

When it's a position they don't agree with, they become as intolerant as their opponents. To this end, the hypocrisy being leveled by certain OMNI posters is appalling.

For the bulk of OMNI, posters, they are only tolerant of the opinions that you share with them. If you don't, your free speech rights are revoked because you are spreading hate. So be lucky, to this point, you haven't found yourself subject to their wrath.

Mike

I am not responsible for the behavior of others. If people cannot behave within the FT TOS, then I cannot help them. Two of the threads that had personal attack problems were ones that I started, but I don't see why the thread topics or my original post are at fault. Passport issues, a great speech, National Security Advisors and personal liberty matters are not the cause or the problem.

That's not my issue nor do I think it the whole picture. After all, I have seen some ultra-PCists ejected permanently for the same kind of shenanigans that the non-PC crowd is ejected.

Don't be so hard on yourself. ;) You have helped inform me and been helpful in many regards. I don't know any mindless sheep Republicans on FT.

GUWonder, my comments weren't directed at you, nor at the contents of your posts, per se. My intent was to note that the level of personal attacks in OMNI is on the upswing again, using some of the threads you've started as an example. (The one about the name change on passports is the one that comes to mind immediately.)

I get frustrated every time I expect a reasonable discussion to take place about issues, and have it turn into a mutual hate-fest from certain people. But then again, maybe my expectations are too high that reasonable adults can act like that.

Mike

I was told that those who have high expectations often get frustrated while those with low expectations don't get frustrated. I recommend to myself to: 1) not presume that the bar is set high when it comes to the internet; and 2) not take things personally (difficult as that can be in some situations.).

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Thanks boilermaker. I appreciate reading that. You just made my day!!!

Best regards,

Sam

Ya know, some people are lucky/smart/cautious enough to be able to afford not to work. Indeed this gives us more time to travel.

Well, I have bursts of posts sometimes. And I'd hate to see that limited. Sometimes I'm roaming around Flyertalk and I post a comment. Then I continue to roam around, only to find that someone addressed my comment. Since I'm still in the forum, I respond again... and again... and again sometimes.

I feel that if I don't respond it might appear that I don't have a response.

So, the pleasure of OMNI is that capacity to have a vivid conversation for a couple of three posts, and then go onto another topic.