Reply #20: I pointed out blatant hypocrisy [View All]

[Tactical Progressive]

Because it's right there.

Let me first address the emotions around this. I didn't call you a hypocrite. The actions, not the man. I specifically directed my words at your OP. So you're already escalating inaccurately. Additionally, you just inferred I'm being freeperish. When in I was merely being factual, which I'll address. But staying on this, I believe that pointing out hypocrisy is WELL within all discourse guidelines, while calling out others as freepers is not. Now, I don't really care, but it seems to me that under any circumstances, let alone that I was accurate and you are not, that your offense is by DU guidelines greater. I don't really want to get bogged down in that, even if you seem bent on it. Back to the point.

You shouldn't tolerate being called a hypocrite, if someone does that, and if it's not true. Here, nobody did that and it is true that your OP was hypocritical, so you're far away from having any justifiable claim.

You had a choice when you made your OP with pretensions to the high road, decrying the cross-currents of animosity that, regardless of who's more culpable, are hurting the party. You could have taken no side, which is the usual choice for such an 'above it all' declaration. Or you could have pointed out inconsistencies or failures or whatnot of both sides and posited the case that opposing failures and/or dishonesties cancel themselves out, in the end leaving us all hurt for no clear advantage.

Instead what you did was claim the high road while dissing the Clintons alone, which is, by any definition, hypocritical. The only thing not to be tolerated here is your OP, in which you tell everyone to just stop, after you get your digs in that the Clintons are the cause of it all.

If anyone owes an apology here, it's you. For that OP - I don't require one.

And by the way, since I took all this time to explain your misconceptions about your own failed thread proclamation, let me just say that I think the Clintons have behaved totally above board and that there is no doubt that it is Obama's camp that has clearly fomented race-baiting with their 'fairytale is a racist codeword' and 'creditting LBJ's accomplishments is racist' claims. But I didn't do that, and more importantly, you don't GET to do that in an OP pretending to be built on neutrality. Not without being called on it.

You aren't owed an apology. You owe one, Mythsaje, at least this time. You're usually alot better.