Comments on: The Duke lacrosse racket—postscript http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/ All kinds of music and whatever else sounds reasonable Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:33:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tortmaster http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Tortmaster Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:43:32 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/#comment-344 <p><i>Comments from Tortmaster have been moved to a <a href="http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/extra-comments/" rel="nofollow">separate page</a>, which also explains my comment policy. The comments are:<i></p> <ol> <li><a href="http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/extra-comments/#comment-374" rel="nofollow">I am hypocritical and unfair and unbalanced in my treatment of DIW/liestoppers vs. Claire Potter.</a></li> <li><a href="http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/extra-comments/#comment-375" rel="nofollow">More criticism of Potter and my unfair-unbalancedness.</a></li> </ol> Comments from Tortmaster have been moved to a separate page, which also explains my comment policy. The comments are:

  1. I am hypocritical and unfair and unbalanced in my treatment of DIW/liestoppers vs. Claire Potter.
  2. More criticism of Potter and my unfair-unbalancedness.
]]> By: wayne fontes http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/comment-page-1/#comment-319 wayne fontes Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:01:27 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/#comment-319 <p>I think the central question you are driving at with this series is do people who have received criticism ranging from reasonable to racist to explicitly threatening still owe an apology. My opinion is that if they initiated the exchange and were wrong they still owe an apology. I would put both Claire Potter and the G88 squarley in that category. </p> <p>A commenter at DIW posed this question: "Would you apologies if someone was shrieking at you with Ubuntu like rhetoric"? If I was wrong I'd hope I would.</p> <p><center><strong>~   ~   ~</strong></center></p> <p><i>It's not the central question of the series, I don't think, but it's a very good question in relation to this post. The whole business of insisting on retractions or apologies on behalf of other people is dicey. I was stupid to do it in my email exchange with Johnson. </i></p> I think the central question you are driving at with this series is do people who have received criticism ranging from reasonable to racist to explicitly threatening still owe an apology. My opinion is that if they initiated the exchange and were wrong they still owe an apology. I would put both Claire Potter and the G88 squarley in that category.

A commenter at DIW posed this question: “Would you apologies if someone was shrieking at you with Ubuntu like rhetoric”? If I was wrong I’d hope I would.

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It’s not the central question of the series, I don’t think, but it’s a very good question in relation to this post. The whole business of insisting on retractions or apologies on behalf of other people is dicey. I was stupid to do it in my email exchange with Johnson.

]]> By: lynp http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/comment-page-1/#comment-314 lynp Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:35:11 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/#comment-314 <p>My complaint about Claire is she wrote things that are demonstrated to be untrue. She is totally contrdicted by the AG of NC and the evidence. Does no one care that she is outright telling lies? Her University is taking a hit for her comments. Not because she made comments but because what she wrote is a lie.</p> <p><center><strong>~   ~   ~</strong></center></p> <p><i>A glance through DIW comments shows a number of someones who care about her "outright telling lies," so I guess you mean someone on the other side. If you, or anyone else who feels the same, can come back with a sincere and thoughtful effort to describe the situation--especially the beginning of it that was generated by her entry about the Purdue/Imus flap--from her perspective, or want to develop a shoe-on-the-other-foot scenario (you write something that turns out to be factually incorrect and a swarm of ill-tempered liberals comes after you), I'd be happy to give my input. </i> </p> My complaint about Claire is she wrote things that are demonstrated to be untrue. She is totally contrdicted by the AG of NC and the evidence. Does no one care that she is outright telling lies? Her University is taking a hit for her comments. Not because she made comments but because what she wrote is a lie.

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A glance through DIW comments shows a number of someones who care about her “outright telling lies,” so I guess you mean someone on the other side. If you, or anyone else who feels the same, can come back with a sincere and thoughtful effort to describe the situation—especially the beginning of it that was generated by her entry about the Purdue/Imus flap—from her perspective, or want to develop a shoe-on-the-other-foot scenario (you write something that turns out to be factually incorrect and a swarm of ill-tempered liberals comes after you), I’d be happy to give my input.

]]> By: Julian Mannino http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Julian Mannino Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:50:41 +0000 http://reharmonized.an-earful.com/2007/11/lacrosse-racket-postscript/#comment-312 <p>Good work. You protected your very precarious position at Duke, and got a few more people to read your blog.</p> <p><center><strong>~   ~   ~</strong></center></p> <p><i>World domination is almost within my grasp, then!</i></p> Good work.
You protected your very precarious position at Duke, and got a few more people to read your blog.

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World domination is almost within my grasp, then!

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