[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I guess you mean me? Yes you did get personal and you just did it again in the racism thread encouraging another member not to waste his time debating with Josh. I may not always agree with what Josh says but I defend his right to say it without being put down because of his age and told to learn more. I don't want to fall out with you Kirk but if you are going to involve me indirectly as you have in this thread I will respond, also I didn't conveniently forget anything I was responding to someone telling you to use the report button.

I don't want to fall out with anyone on here - I don't know them and they cannot affect my life one little iota - so why would I fall out with anyone?

However, this does not mean that I will 'lay down and die' just because I am outnumbered or because someone who has been a member on here longer than I have thinks they have a monopoly on the truth, which they most certainly DO NOT.

Josh is very intelligent, but also very naive - and that is NOT denigrating him - but is true of most children his age. If you deny this then your judgement is seriously flawed.

The thread in question has been closed, but, I believe, is still there to view, so I challenge you to prove to me by referencing it, just where I got personal with Josh to the degree that he FIRST got very personal with me by claiming that I was racist and xenophobic (not for the first time) when I most certainly am no such thing.

There is a certain futility in posting on these threads, because NEITHER side of an argument will ever cede - no matter how much corroborating evidence is given in support of a view, but i am afraid, because of Josh's inexperience and lack of maturity, he is particularly dogged in his views and particulary prone to ignoring rational argument and proof, if it is contrary to his opinion.

THIS was the reason for my comment that the other member was 'wasting his time'.

What is wrong with that?

You made adverse comments about me on a thread where you were not even participant, and now you are up in arms again because I have spoken the truth:

Did you criticise me for 'being personal with Josh' yet fail to criticise his offensive labelling of me a racist and xenophobe, or not?

Yes - of course you did.

There are other threads where you have been highly insulting and offensive to me but I did not reciprocate;

You called me a liar when I talked of my own personal experience of Benefit Cheating mothers with multiple children, and you did it again when I posted about my direct experience of SOME immigrants.

You do not OWN this forum, and you cannot continue to leap in at the drop of a hat when you perceive an opportunity to unfairly have a go at me - not without answer any more, I'm afraid.

I suggest the best solution is, that I put both you and Josh on 'IGNORE' and I please ask that both of you do the same with me.

Mods - There is again, nothing offensive in my response. Surely, I have the democratic right to respond to unwarranted allegation and defend myself against it with the truth.