Well said, ties into below...You are a rhetorical master, Maark. Nice pivot -- you're making a mountain out of a molehill/now that you mention it you are elitist -- and paranoid!
If you really are a Beach Crab, then. However, there is a history of people on this board creating pseudonyms to post rude or controversial messages. It's very unusual for someone to just jump into the fray. If that is truly what happened, then my apologies.
Here's why I made a hasty conclusion --
First, you take an ironic post out of context, remove the if part of the statement, and proceed to call me out for being insensitive to the point of view of good working class people. If you came on the board this week, read Chickpea's description of what happened to bring her down, and saw my response to her and took away that I was the one who didn't embrace diversity of thought then perhaps you don't get the irony, the "I don't think this is the case but hope we all will take a long hard minute to make sure it's not" implied by the word "if."
I invite you, as a new member, to go back and read some of my 1300+ posts before you decide to correct my ignorant, anti-redneck views. If you'd read some of my posts, you might realize I do embrace diverse thought. I prefer friends with informed, opposite views to friends who have no interest in politics at all. My dear Skunky is himself a conservative. My dad was a huge redneck (as you define the word, not me). My brother is both and works for Big Oil, and I love(d) them all.
The second thing that set off my suspicions was the "all opinions are equal" part of your post. This is something I've seen posted on this board time and again, and I just can't disagree more. All votes are equal, and rightly so. all opinions do not, however, carry equal weight. If someone wants to mock people of a certain ethnic group, and all the people around them nod their head in agreement -- no, their opinions are not as valid as any other. Bigotry is just not acceptable. Making others uncomfortable based on thinly veiled racism, making someone who is such an asset to this (or any) community feel like an outsider, isn't okay. I'll be happy to debate that with you, but I resent you taking comments directed at a small group of people that behaved poorly and turning it into a broad attack on an entire culture.
There is no elitist tint to my messages. I am quite sure the people whose behavior I judged so harshly are far more elite and have far more standing in the community than I do. There is nothing elitist about being appalled when respected members of the community behave so disrepectfully to others....particularly others I happen to like a lot. The thread was started asking that it not descend into a political rehashing, and my intent was merely to use a bit of levity to cheer up a poster I like and respect.
If, on your fifth post, you feel you know the board well enough to call me elitist and paranoid....well, I hope you'll utilize the read other posts by this poster feature of the board before you post your opinions of others.
Seemed it was an assertion not a speculation. And as to the all experience being worthy of appreciation and recognition hence all opinions being valid, have you heard of Garbage In Garbage Out? Go try peeing on an electric fence, it is my valid opinion that it may enlighten you and you might "appreciate" the experience.
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How do you come up with these?
(I am intending to be cute here in this last bit)