Reply #6: you are absolutely correct [View All]

sometimes we are total ninnies

I have watched countless threads get hijacked right here on DU by grammar police and PC police and attitude police splitting the finest of hairs thirty different ways and the point and the will to continue making the point gets lost.

We are every bit as bad about posturing like passive aggressive twits as the other side is, with the only notable difference being that we tend to shoot each other instead of lining up and firing on cue at the enemy.

However, in our defense, we do that BECAUSE we value individual opinion, including our own, and we largely think for ourselves instead of borrowing someone else's talking points. We do that because we are not merely "cogs" in the wheel responding to a central Führer to fire on command, and not anything at all like the kind of authoritirian dunderheads we rail against.

To bemoan the fact that we don't fight like republicans is to bemoan the fact that we aren't republican. We don't need to learn to fight like them - we need to learn to do what we do more effectively. We need to learn to distinguish what is relevant to the fight, i.e., grammar police are ANNOYING AS FUCKING HELL when there is a point to be made and discussed and in my opinion should be treated equally as rudely as they behave in hijacking a thread without contributing anything to the discussion themselves.

We need to get away from the other mindset that happens that berate us for being individual in our thinking, and that berate us for daring to depart from "speaking points" or having nuance of our own - they too hijack the conversation. There are points to be made in the limited time we have. To divert with posturing and schoolmarmism and oblique accusations of freeperhood mean that at the end of the day the only people who dare speak on any topic are the schoolmarms and grammar police, and they don't often a lot to say if it doesn't involve grammar or proper use of colorless, toneless speech.

Be yourself - that's what WE do.