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I didn't 'glide past' his little swipe -- I've listed like 16 things wrong with it.
In this article I led off the SSI discussion with the observation that --- > nobody has any business trying to Suppress Truth.  We called Wedge out for doing that, by implication.  Gliding past? Of course not.
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1.  What we are arguing about is, how heinous was this crime.  Is it firable?  Is it deserving of a week's worth of excoriation?  Should we Rocker him?  Or what?
2.  My question is, where is the counterbalancing outrage against (say) Big Blog, for accusing Eric Wedge of hating walks, and 9,000 other things like that.  It's an intellectual question, an objective one.  It is opaque to me why the first crime bothers people so much, and the second one doesn't.
3.  I don't know of any way for two people to agree on how a verbal "crime" should be weighted.  Where is the objective standard that gives us our bearings?
What I ask is that we be fair -- that we treat John Rocker "incorrect speech" exactly the same way that we treat Al Sharpton "incorrect speech," that we treat Eric Wedge "insults" the same way we treat USSM -- and SSI -- "insults."