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Says Victoria L--
“First of all rage is never a noble or constructive sentiment. We all feel but it should not be proudly paraded about as if it were a badge of honour to be so unnuanced in our reactions. Rage means you are seeing things in black and white.”
I would venture that the ability to feel rage for the misfortune of others, for the horrific torment wrought by bullies even if it’s not happening to you, is certainly far more noble than whatever it is that’s compelling you to smugly sit back and continuously, persistently intone about how tedious and puerile you find Salon's articles. Just how many letters have you written about that very topic, anyway?
“And I fail to see how my calling O'Hehir self-loathing and condemning his rage are hypocrisy, but nice try.”
Huh. That’s funny, because in your letter you explained that you condemned his rage on the very lofty grounds that ‘rage is never a noble or constructive sentiment.’ And yet in the very same letter you label Andrew as a ‘self-loathing class act.’ Elsewhere on this discussion you call someone an ‘ignorant Salonista.’
Unless you can somehow prove these statements are noble or constructive, you are the very definition of a hypocrite.
