<p>On the contrary, FountainSiren, my post wasn’t about those respond to you with wit and humor, it was about your expectation that people do so. You make a sustained series of posts in support of homophobic bigotry and when you get called on it, claim you’re not a bigot, cite examples of horrible things you’ve suffered and are against, and then cry “victim.” I’m not buying and I won’t let you get away with it just because you’re 17.</p>
<p>The examples you cite are analagous to someone who Jewish citing relatives lost in the Holocaust as reason that can’t be bigoted even if they tolerate nasty attitudes towards schwarzers. Funny, you claim to fight for the underdog and yet are ready to sustain prejudice against gays because someone “isn’t comfortable.” You don’t like the word “bigot”? Good. I suggest you get used to it.</p>
<p>Here’s another word for you. Someone who is obnoxious, provocative, and inflammatory and yet doesn’t expect to get hit back = “bully.” </p>
<p>If your posts were that of my daughter, I wouldn’t dream of editing them for her. However, the one thing I would tell her is, “Be prepared to get hit.” Your age does not excuse your posts and the sustained pattern constitutes, in my book, a waiver to any immunity with which you thought you might be indulged.</p>
<p>You’re clearly bright, articulate, clever, and in command of rhetorical tactics. You’re also passive-aggressive [post #38 is brilliant], manipulative, willfully obtuse and you know exactly what you’re doing…as one would expect of anyone bright enough to attend Dartmouth. It will be interesting to see how your arrogance ferments as you mature.</p>
<p>Kluge, I edit too. But I won’t shy away just because of a poster’s age.</p>
<p>:::This post has been made with 100-percent acid-free phosphors.</p>