100,000 Protestors... Angry mobs of students...

[innerSpaceman]

Let me be clear about what I find to be fightin' words. Alex's remark about not being able to tell the difference between Iranians and Iraqis* because they all look the same to him was not fightin' words because (1) it was obviously meant as humor and (2) neither Iraqis nor Iranians make up a significant portion of our membership, and thus are not here to experience a blanket insult that may nonethess apply to them individually.

Insulting Disney fans would be in poor form here.

Jokes about geeks are fine, but real put-downs about geekdom as a group would be considered fightin' words by me.


Similarly, attacking Democrats is fine - if it's clear that the attack is limited to politicians. But when an attack is made on such a broad group as democrats, applying to large segments of our membership, such can be considered fightin' words.

If the line that I've drawn in the blood-stained, desert sand had been crossed, I would have let it be known. But since the tone was approaching the line, I thought it prudent to say so.




* I'm not sure if Alex's comment was even in this thread, but I can't keep these political threads straight in my head anymore. They have become almost interchangeable. I've half a mind to merge them all.