And that would bother me if you didn't turn around and do the same exact thing....misrepresent my position.old salt wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 2:31 amAS usual -- you are misrepresenting our position & then blasting off on a tangent.a fan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 25, 2022 7:23 pm ...it ain't that hard to figure out how to address someone.
If some 18 year old recruit who gets punished if he gets it wrong can add 1+1 and get 2? So can American adults.
And my second point, CLEARLY how you address someone is important in America. Always has been.
Ever seen someone who's rude to a waiter or employee at a store? For me? That's it, man, we're not friends.....I have no interest in spending time with someone who just can't handle respecting their fellow humans, and think that they're a F'ing King.
It's virtue signaling. And they're doing it because FoxNation has made this an "issue", instead of working on making America a better place.
Ten steak dinners says that when kram and OS meet someone who says "please address me as Sir".....they do it.
They're arguing to argue. I don't believe them. They're good, honest, polite Americans, just like the rest of us.
Nope, note even close. What generated my comment was you expending energy, pretending that you couldn't figure out how the media would know what the victim's preferred pronouns were, and implying annoyance that this was an issue. Of all the things you could chose to post about a mass murder....THIS is what gets your attention. So no human reaction like "wow, what a waste of life". No sir, it didn't occur to you to share your views on the loss of life for no reason. You instead chose to mock pronouns as you have done in the past----context. And then act like you don't know what that communicates to the rest of us.
Sigh. What's the first thing the police do when someone is killed, OS? They contact 'the first of......" what? And when they did that, they asked for pronouns to put in some effort to respect the dead. That's it. That's how they "figured it out". And you're telling me that a man who understands the physics of how planes lift off the ground can't figure that out all by himself? You need someone to explain this to you? Really?
You're not being honest. Hence my reaction. You're pulling a Pete: pretending you're too stupid to understand simple things.
They're trying to respect the people who just had their heads blown off by a nutjob, OS. What a great time to make fun of them and their desire to be treated with respect after a shortened lifetime of abuse.
You would not have made this post if the first story came out naming the veteran a Captain, and later corrected the piece to say he retired as a Major. Or if the journalist took measures to get the correct rank straight out of the gate. It's just basic respect and decency.