tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247899948019262860.post4890905290452771506..comments2023-09-09T10:29:29.789-05:00Comments on The Green Room: (In)Civility in Public DiscourseAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17709842445396738547noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247899948019262860.post-5549204737559400402008-10-19T16:06:00.000-05:002008-10-19T16:06:00.000-05:00I aim for accuracy and disregard platform. It help...I aim for accuracy and disregard platform. It helps a lot to point out the factually inconsistent statements in some of the emails broadcast for either campaign. As soon as the facts in one of these fusillades are disputed clearly and with authority, the thing usually slows down in it's trek across the internet. I think it's important to respond to them when they abuse one's reason. I got the one about Chicago being worse than Iraq in terms of the murder rate. It took me 45 minutes, but I crafted a rigorously documented and verified explanation of why this was not only not factual but somewhat insulting as well. I replied to all and got several emails back thanking me for making the argument.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247899948019262860.post-60509975539751384552008-10-18T20:00:00.000-05:002008-10-18T20:00:00.000-05:00I agree with the coach. Today, we look at Abraham ...I agree with the coach. Today, we look at Abraham Lincoln as nearly a saint. but as a civil war buff, I've spent a lot of time studying the election of 1864. It was far meaner than today's contest. Lincoln was called names and treated far worse than even George Bush.<BR/><BR/>Elections in my opinion have never been more civil. At least now that the web is around, we can find out the truth in any statement that the candidates make. <BR/><BR/>Just remember this. On November 4th the election will take place. Both parties will abide by the decision of the people. And the republic will endure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3247899948019262860.post-19935722004962599662008-10-18T00:22:00.000-05:002008-10-18T00:22:00.000-05:00It is all in your perspective. I read a great piec...It is all in your perspective. I read a great piece on this from a travel coach who felt that his teams every year were getting worse. (ok, I know you are trying to figure out how I am going to make this fit into your discussion, stay with me)<BR/><BR/>His point was, he had been w/ his 12U team now for 2 years. His daughter was graduating to 14U. He stayed w/ his 10 year old daughter who was now moving up to 12U. This team was way worse than his prior team had been at this age, what was wrong?<BR/><BR/>Nothing was wrong. In fact, this team actually performed better than his prior team did its first year. What had changed? HIS perspective.<BR/><BR/>This is applicable to this year's election. What has changed about it? Our perspective. Do you really think this is more contentious than when Reagan ran? What about Clinton and Bush? That campaign was nuts as the documentary The War Room demonstrates. Who couldn't help but fall in love with competing campaign managers that were sleeping together!<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I tire of this all the time and see it daily. How many times have you heard "kids are worse now than they ever have been". But the people who say that used to wear leather jackets, slick their hair back, carry switch-blades around, cigarettes in their t-shirts and have gang fights involving chains and bats. Not to mention the drag races!<BR/><BR/>The kids today? In my neighborhood they actually climbed on the building of a roof! You would think it was the end of the world! The outrage! Judgment and perspective is the problem.<BR/><BR/>People are way to quick to judge other's with very limited knowledge of their position or actions. Talking heads make a living prejudging. It is having a negative effect on our society.<BR/><BR/>Perspective changes daily in everyone on the planet. My 8 year old son learns new things every day that shape and mold him. He no longer looks at the world the way he did yesterday, so he feels the world must have changed drastically. It did not, his perspective did.<BR/><BR/>My 2 cents, which is worth about as much as you paid for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com