“to be insulted and accused of “attacking” the boy and being “un-Christian” and “EVIL.” Those are very serious charges a poster was subjected”
Serious charges? you have no perspective of what you have done.
We are anonymous posters with fictitious names on a website. You are Fenwick and I am Beautiful. Calling each other anything here is meaningless to the whole world. You can call me Retarded, Psycho, or Schizophrenic. I can call you insensitive or rude. Nothing will change for your life or mine.
Son of POTUS is in another league. Labeling a child with a psychiatric abnormality is very serious. Personally naming a child whose name is world famous and stigmatizing him with a mental disorder is not cool.
Do you see the difference?
“you have no perspective of what you have done.”
All I did was reiterate what’s already been discussed a lot around the Internet, many times by people sympathetic to Barron, very familiar with the condition in question, and who understand this has the potential to explain many things, including some of his parents’ actions. You seem to be under the impression that if you can close down discussion of it here, it will die off—and I would support you if that were actually possible (a small number of Freepers musing out loud on a topic close to them are hardly enough to control the national narrative or label anyone anything). I do think it would probably have been better if this hadn’t become a topic online in the first place, but there are too many people independently arriving at this conclusion to ever keep everybody quiet.
Certainly, you may be right in thinking this sort of talk should be clamped down on when possible (although I can’t help but think you drew a lot more attention to this topic than if you had ignored the two posters talking about their kid and students—or even just given a calm and thoughtful argument on why it’s better not to bring this up). None of us here were “attacking” Barron, but sure it’s probably better to avoid the topic altogether. I wish I never joined in. How about we stop this in-fighting and return to just hitting the Dems instead?