Reply To: What makes someone a dolt?

@ursula

You wanted to know the diff between pretending to shoot someone and pretending to insult them.

I suppose the diff is that the consequences in the event you are wrong are much more severe in the case of the fake murder. If a couple of friends are sitting around chilling and one draws a gun I would advise ducking even though he is your friend and they are probably blanks, But if you are sitting around with friends chilling and one starts calling the others twits I would advise them not to go to their respective rooms crying because that really isn’t necessary and if indeed he was trying to insult them, they haven’t lost out by not being insulted.

@emlf

You assert that you dont care how this started. You also say we are acting differently than R’ Pam.

A non caring attitude is not a problem as long as you stay out of it. If you dont care AND you get involved, well thats just disturbing.

As for the diff between us and R’ Pam- Yeah, what of it? I’m not R’ Pam and you’re not R’ Pam so keep him out of it.

@coffee addict

You contend that it is obvious that I only espoused my slur to be a joke after everyone started getting all hypersensitive.

At this point it may serve a purpose to repost that which was taken down by the mods: The question was asked “do ashkenazim take showers during the nine days?” One unnamed bar shattya responded “my hair is still wet from the shower. Yes I”m ashkenazi, you dolts.” Now the shrewdness of this mode of insult was mainly that it wasn’t aimed at anyone except those who would think that he would post a personal experiance which had nothing to do with the discussion- meaning if he was sfardi- but noone would think that and consequently noone was being called a dolt.

You also contend that I will not apologize because as you stated I am a teenager.

It sure is hard to respond to a made-up premise. YOU say that I’m a teenager and then you go researching my psychology based on your made up information. I don’t know. Sounds to me that you are just causing yourself undue stress.

@minyan gal

You contend that since the purpose of this thread is only to teach one poster not to insult people, therefore it is inappropriate and adorable seems to agree with you.

First of all your premise is wrong and second of all your therefore is wrong. Your premise is wrong because you dont appreciate each jew and how important it is to straighten out each persons hashkafas. That is what this website is all about. Your therefore is wrong because even if you are right that each jew is not important and we should just let people be wrong, I dont understand why you have to try to stop people from helping the yochid.