Comments on: More Liberal hypocrisy http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/04/more-liberal-hypocrisy/ "The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with 'arguments' from the Tory press." --- Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915. Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:29:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jess http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/04/more-liberal-hypocrisy/comment-page-1/#comment-5684 Jess Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:45:50 +0000 http://www.redrag.net/2004/11/04/more-liberal-hypocrisy/#comment-5684 Couldn't agree with you more, Rob. It's cheap humour to pay out on someone's looks. That said, I believe Darp raised the valid point that Miranda has seen fit to mock and humiliate the appearance of others on her own blog, so perhaps the lesson is a bit of old school Bible eg "Do unto others..." It would seem that insulting other people's appearances for easy laughs is great fun, until it happens to you in which case it's time to get outraged. It's easy to slip up and indulge, I'm no angel myself. But I do make a conscious effort to ensure that IF I take the piss out of someone, it's not over something superficial like their appearance but their fucked up ideology or all-round idiocy. <!-- three strikes score: 0. --> Couldn’t agree with you more, Rob. It’s cheap humour to pay out on someone’s looks. That said, I believe Darp raised the valid point that Miranda has seen fit to mock and humiliate the appearance of others on her own blog, so perhaps the lesson is a bit of old school Bible eg “Do unto others…” It would seem that insulting other people’s appearances for easy laughs is great fun, until it happens to you in which case it’s time to get outraged.

It’s easy to slip up and indulge, I’m no angel myself. But I do make a conscious effort to ensure that IF I take the piss out of someone, it’s not over something superficial like their appearance but their fucked up ideology or all-round idiocy.

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