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Oct 23, 2003 12:12

I was just about to post this on the board, but Bit seems a little overwhelmed, which would not be my intention, so I'm transferring it here, so Bit can feel overwhelmed in a much less public and much more friendly realm.If I may add to Masq's and Maura's incisive commentaries on this argument, I'd like to say that I've seen this sort of thing said ( Read more... )

flame wars, atpo

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Thoughts masqthephlsphr October 23 2003, 11:18:44 UTC

I'll admit that the board (and its offshoots) have come to some amount of polarization; I think that's as much due to a self-segregation into groups where no one has to listen to any opposing arguments offered by anyone other than his own straw men as it is to any confusion between subjective judgment and objective fact.I don't really see this polarization you're talking about. In fact, a lot of the raised emotional levels on the board in the past few months can be attributed to the fact that people with vastly different perceptions of characters, 'ships, and story lines are still mixing on the board, and in LJ ( ... )

Not overwhelmed, just disappointed atpolittlebit October 23 2003, 11:43:12 UTC

And don't really feel much like continuing it. Period.

wisewoman October 23 2003, 16:15:57 UTC

And please don't get me started on Clem: in my humble opinion, he ruined the show, and, from my perspective, his fans commit the moral equivalent of genocide.

Hey! I resemble that remark!!

;o)

Well, in my oh-so-humble opinion-- honorh October 23 2003, 18:58:46 UTC

Clem hatred masks deep racism, homophobia, and dislike of chocolate. All of Buffy's true fans (again, my opinion) wish to see her happy with Our Lad of the Floppy Ears rather than a big undead lunk or a skinny un-undead lunk.

To the barricades! dherblay October 24 2003, 09:56:11 UTC

With his Bugles and Wedding Planner, it is obvious that Clem represents the soulless bourgeois, by no means oblivious to but merely complacent in the face of capital's predation upon the weak, fearful of any crisis which might upset his comfortable little world, not working to avert society's dreadful apocalypse, but fleeing instead. He is not part of the solution; he is the problem itself. I repeat: his inaction is tantamount to genocide, and anyone who would "honor" him has blood on his or her hands.

До свидания, "comrade." I'll see you at the purge.

Re: To the barricades! masqthephlsphr October 24 2003, 11:44:27 UTC

Your analysis of Clem's political subtext is so breath-taking as to give me the chills. No wonder I found him dull and ominous!