Enough Jules-bashing, Already

[David Casseres]

>At 10:57 AM 4/26/97 -0400, davemarc wrote:
>>.... I respectfully ask P-listers to cut down on those Jules-bashing posts.
>
>I second the motion of our distinguished colleague from Hell's Kitchen.
>And we could drop the thinly veiled anti-Semitism of "Jewels." His name
>is Jules.

I second that.

>>Jimmy wrote:  "My fear is that l'Affaire Lineland will mute some of the
>>best voices on the P-list." 
>
>First, if "Lineland" makes anyone think twice about posting then he/she 
>is pretty spine-less. I though the P-list celebrated TRP and his incisive
>opinions, and that P-listers don't give a damn about what They think.
>Second, I don't think anyone here will shrink away from expressing
>him/her bad self. Finally, this list is not only public but nicely indexed 
>(Thanks, Mr. Dinn!), and the various opinions, flames, etc. are all there 
>to see by anyone with a simple ASCII terminal. Besides, some folks 
>might be better off having their flames edited for publication.

He's right.  Yes.  What we have here is another instance of something 
more often seen on newsgroups: people forgetting that there is a Real(tm) 
World with real people in it, and (here's the tricky part) the Internet 
is just a part of that Real World.  A-and the people on it, whom one 
insults and flames and denigrates and slanders and demonizes so blithely, 
are actual human persons with fleshy smelly ol' corporeal bodies and 
everything and they are not confined, like little preterite electrons, to 
the virtual halfworld of the Net -- *they exist in the Real World.*  
(Don't you?)  A-and every time you post something, they are all 
listening; it is exactly like printing something up on flyers and pasting 
them onto walls and telephone poles all over the world.

So someone goes around quoting what you said?  You betcha.  Puts the 
quotation in writing and print his own flyers?  Damn right he does.  How 
long did you think it would take?  Is it someone you don't like?  Tough 
shit, my friends.  Be glad our own little conversation here is 
interesting enough to be treated like this!  You won't find anyone 
publishing quotations from talk.politics.misc or talk.creationism or the 
Martha Stewart Mailing List.


Cheers,
David