[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

Oh come on - have you conveniently forgotten the threads about May that got very personal and insulting. Besides politicians are up for criticism. You can't stop people criticising any politician unless you want to live in some kind of police state.

As for any comments about his supporters in general I can remember plenty of threads bashing tory supporters and EU leavers. I would have thought that when people start on individuals there is more of a problem.

The threads about May got very personal and insulting indeed. Towards her. As an elected official I can insult her as much as I want, just as you can towards Jeramy Corbyn. The difference is we're talking about blanket and derisive insults towards their supporters, which makes debates hostile and provokes arguments. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I've never partaken in that because that would be disingenuous, but I bet I could count on one hand the number of times that's happened without being provoked first.

Brillo, you regularly open your Corbyn and Labour bashing threads with a disparaging remark along the lines of 'his supporters are naive', 'these young left wingers are deluded and can't see the wood for the trees', etc etc. If you give it out, expect it back, you aren't making those comments without wanting a reaction.

Just to be clear, the reason this particular discussion began with Cherie was because she attempted to make out you never insult anyone without being provoked. I wanted to challenge that.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The threads about May got very personal and insulting indeed. Towards her. As an elected official I can insult her as much as I want, just as you can towards Jeramy Corbyn. The difference is we're talking about blanket and derisive insults towards their supporters, which makes debates hostile and provokes arguments. I'm not going to sit here and pretend I've never partaken in that because that would be disingenuous, but I bet I could count on one hand the number of times that's happened without being provoked first.

Brillo, you regularly open your Corbyn and Labour bashing threads with a disparaging remark along the lines of 'his supporters are naive', 'these young left wingers are deluded and can't see the wood for the trees', etc etc. If you give it out, expect it back, you aren't making those comments without wanting a reaction.

Just to be clear, the reason this particular discussion began with Cherie was because she attempted to make out you never insult anyone without being provoked. I wanted to challenge that.

When I do it's because I am sick of all the sarcastic digs about those that voted for the Tories as well as those that voted to leave. You see in that regard it is very much a two-way street.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

When I do it's because I am sick of all the sarcastic digs about those that voted for the Tories as well as those that voted to leave. You see in that regard it is very much a two-way street.

It would be a two-way street if people had already been insulting those who voted for the Tories and Leave, but they usually haven't. It's usually in your opening post to a thread you've started, and I really don't remember left-leaning posters making threads and posts en masse insulting Tory or Leave voters to the extent that you do. That's not to say it doesn't happen, but you take it to a whole different level.

[Brillopad]

Originally Posted by Jack_

It would be a two-way street if people had already been insulting those who voted for the Tories and Leave, but they usually haven't. It's usually in your opening post to a thread you've started, and I really don't remember left-leaning posters making threads and posts en masse insulting Tory or Leave voters to the extent that you do. That's not to say it doesn't happen, but you take it to a whole different level.

I'd say it was the constant whinging about Brexit and those that voted for it and the constant attempts to overturn it they led to me creating a lot of threads. Pure frustration!!! Up until recent months I very rarely created threads.

Such an OTT reaction to me creating quite a lot of threads in the current political climate for a relatively short period of time was pretty telling in my opinion. If you spread out my threads over the period of time I have been here it probably wouldn't have amounted to that many on a weekly, nevermind daily basis. Bizarre.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

I'd say it was the constant whinging about Brexit and those that voted for it and the constant attempts to overturn it they led to me creating a lot of threads. Pure frustration!!! Up until recent months I very rarely created threads.

Such an OTT reaction to me creating quite a lot of threads in the current political climate for a relatively short period of time was pretty telling in my opinion. If you spread out my threads over the period of time I have been here it probably wouldn't have amounted to that many on a weekly, nevermind daily basis. Bizarre.

I think I listed the threads and the over reaction/exaggeration to them?