“For what it’s worth, I don’t even post comments like yours without indicating sarcasm (a simple /s will do). There’s just too much chance of being misunderstood.”
This is good advice which I’ll use everytime.
Off the record; We all know that no one can argue down the Constitution or Bill of Rights as it is in black & white and it is what it is. So one would have to wonder why you even care what igorant people say other than taking up bandwidth. Rush welcomes them and then shows them where they are wrong in sucah a way in which they’ll come back and are educated also. You have a saying that the “Truth shall set you free”. I think it’ll do even more for these trolls and whatever else you call them. /s
You don’t have to use the /s for everything you post either.
You’re initial comment which started this firestorm was in post 7, which was......”Indians, blacks or anyone other than white are incapable of being racist.”
Now, that comment has been seriously made by liberals. There are many out there who actually believe that. So, when you make a comment like that, if you don’t really believe it, that is the time to use the /s to indicate that you are being sarcastic. Otherwise, it is very likely to be interpreted as you being serious about that.
Again, there are some FReepers who have been around long enough that we know their positions on different issues and KNOW them to be strongly conservative. So if they made that kind of statement, we would know that they didn’t mean it but were being sarcastic because we know them.
For someone who hasn’t been around long, there’s no way of telling because nobody knows you well enough. For all we know, you could be serious.
Some of the comments you have made since this thread didn’t really need the /s tag.
I’m sure it’s confusing, especially considering that English is not your native tongue.
Sorry about being so hard on you earlier. Reacting without thinking things through is never a good policy.