I kind of agree with pissclams. When people started going negative, I it gave me chills, and not the good kind. I mean, yes, it is good that we’re more tolerant than other message boards, but ... think about it. We're just using that as an excuse to be negative. Just like squawks. We think it is tacky and classless when squawks do it, but it's acceptable for us? You've been watching too many Chuck Norris movies, man.
pissclams makes some interesting points.
I am reminded of a certain poster who no longer comes on here, who back in 2006 was pretty moved by a movie about a certain African nation called Rwanda where a genocide of almost a million people occurred. Back then, we thought the killers, who were called Hutus, were the "bad guys," and the victims, whose were called Tutsis, were the "good guys."
Well, now it turns out that the current president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, a Tutsi former member of the RPF that helped bring the original 1994 genocide to an end, may be brought up for war crimes because there is sufficient evidence to support claims that within the last 15 years he has launched a retaliatory genocide against the Hutus, sending forces to pursue them into the Congo, and killing almost as many Hutu men, women, and children as there were Tutsis killed in the original genocide.
So if these accusations bear out, all the good will the Tutsis garnered by their suffering will be forgotten, as they are now the aggressors, the killers.
Granted, our situation is a little different, but if we were the just message board we pretend to be, we would have both positive and negative. Granted, it ain't as satisfying as when Rutger Hauer says "F*ck the bonus" in Wanted: Dead or Alive, but it is an action representative of the values we claim to embrace as goEMAW.com.
How are we now acting? Like bloodthirsty mongrels, dancing, chanting, celebrating, because of negativity. It's kind of scary. We should be relieved, yes, because our tolerance allows us to be negative, but celebratory? I think that is the point pissclams is making.
