http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/10/31/tippett-dangerous-offender.html

But speaking of Chris with a T, I hope he has done the smart thing and taken our advice instead of going off somewhere to sulk. Hope springs eternal. Well, at least sometimes. ;-)

First, here are a few quotes from your posts:

“I just don’t get all the personal attacks.”

“Why does something bad have to happen to me to oppose discrimination against people with a deformity?”

“The more I hear, the more I realize that most people on this board have no self-control and are simply here to make personal attacks.”

“I’m so sorry this didn’t go better. My fault of course……”

“I’m sure I have a few more insults coming….. whatever, I know I’m a good person and would be huge asset on this board if people would calm down and stop the personal attacks.”

First of all, please drop the attitude. No-one here is being mean with you just because you’re you, and you portraying yourself as some kind of a martyr is neither becoming nor conducive to any kind of sensible rapport. In fact, it makes you seem self-centered and, yes, whiny in a very farty way.

Second… hello? HELLO! OVER HERE!!!!! Aaah, thank you, thought I just lost you there. Anyway, my second point is, not all comments are personally and totally directed towards you nor are they intended to target you specifically. My comment about your post making you seem like a whiny fart was purely an observation and reflected the fact that you presented your opinion in a way which, for many, makes the poster seem like a whiny little fart. The fact that you got so upset about that particular comment serves only to reinforce that particular first impression.

Third, for someone claiming to be such a good guy – and repeating it in a manner almost reeking of desperation…. hey! HEY! Don’t you dare stop reading now, calm the fuck down and listen – well, read – for once, okay? Anyway, what I said in my first post still applies – if you are truly a nice person, your actions speak louder than words and you do not need to tell people how nice you are, because they will notice it anyway. And for someone claiming to be nice, I find it very interesting that you replied to Jason’s and my posts with such anger and, yes, personal insults.

“All I really get from you two (Jason and Homer) are blah blah blah, hasty, desperate, blah blah blah. No valid points, just a bunch of childish personal attacks.”

One question: did you even read all of my post? Or Jason’s? Because – and why do I feel like I’m repeating myself here? – for someone who claims everyone misses your point, you sure as hell have a fantastic ability to miss the bullseye yourself. And there you go again with the “childish personal attacks”. Seriously, what is your fucking problem? Why do you seem to think the world revolves around you, and that the second you post here, everyone present turns against you? Do you really think you’re that important, or that we’re so fucking infantile that we would pick on you just because you exist?

You need a little reality check, Chris with a T. For that, let’s go back to your very first post. As Becky so eloquently put it, you came in with your fists flying, and with not a single thought of the repercussions went on to attack. Yet despite that, you expected people to not only listen to you, but to agree with you. Really?

Chris with a T, ask yourself this – what is the instinctive reaction of someone who finds him- or herself under attack? That’s right, to defend ourselves. Now ask, what is the instinctive reaction of a group of people when one of them comes under attack? Yep, we rally to their defense. And what you did was attack. If you even thought of denying it, don’t.

And what particularly struck me about your first post was this:

“but some of the people who have posted on this thread (such as Sherry and Eileen) seem more like a danger to society than Stanley.”

There’s only one way I can interpret this, and that is that you are of the opinion that molesting children is a better option – less evil, if you will – than calling people names. I’m sure, having followed the direction of this thread, that that was not your intention. But that was the impression you gave, and is probably also at the root of why you got the reaction you did.

I understand, you’re passionate about name-calling, and I agree with you that the world would be a better place if people stopped calling each other names gratuitously. But this is not enough, and I find your scope to be far too limited and your belief that solving this one issue would erase many problems in the world extremely naive.

But I digress, let’s return to your post and the responses you got. So now we’ve established that you inadvertedly gave the impression of defending stanley tippett and thus, by extension, defending paedophilia. Then you went and dug your grave deeper with the following:

“You clearly don’t care about the victims in this case, and you’re also ignorant to the fact that more people are being victimized as a consequence of the insensitivity on this board.”

Quite frankly, you couldn’t be further off the mark even if you tried. This very site exists only for the victims, and they always come first. Personally, I have an extra-soft spot in my heart for children who are the victims of crime. If some ugly asshat with a deformity decides to molest a child, I honestly couldn’t give less of a fuck if someone hurts his widdle feewings by calling him every single insult that exists in the english language. Or in the entire fucking world, for that matter. For you to infer otherwise only reveals that, yes, you once again revealed your ignorance and showed your ability of missing the point.

We do not hate stanley tippett because of the way he looks, but because of what he did. Because what he did was unforgivable, and in doing so he also relinquished any right to any kind of respect from anyone. Harsh? You may think so. But how would you feel if you were nine years old and had some scary-looking dude shove his hard and swollen piss-tube up your ass? Would you be able to respect him – or yourself – in the morning? Would you be able to continue your life as if nothing had happened?

I don’t think so.

“I welcome any further personal attacks. Have fun trying to counter everything I say with a bunch of stupid rubbish, Homer, but you’re not fooling anyone. And remember, my message was simply that it’s wrong to make fun of people because something bad WILL happen as a result (people will get hurt).”

If this were a chat-board, or facebook, I could understand where you’re coming from. But this is a blog featuring some seriously heinous crimes, and the guilt of the perpetrators are rarely, if ever, in doubt. People have already gotten hurt. None more innocent than all the children featured on this site. Why in the everloving fuck should we care about the people who caused all that pain feeling hurt by the things we write on this blog?

Oh, one final thing – my post was also a test. Had you been as nice a person as you like to claim, your response would have been different. Think about that before you post a reply to this one. And if you decide not to, that’s fine. All I can say is take care, Christ with a T.

Now think of the rest of us, reading this story for the first time, and being unable to further express our outrage at what he did, ugly as sin or not. Why did we post the way we did? What caused you to post the way you did?

Humanity speaks to all of us in different ways sometimes, but it’s universal. What we try to do on this website, above all, is set aside our small differences in favor of our larger and more important collective humanity.

Some people are incapable of doing that, and that doesn’t make them bad people. I don’t think you’re incapable of doing that, I just think you have to understand a bit more about all of us, about the basic reason for this website, before you continue posting. I also think you could make a valuable contribution.

Take care, chris. :)

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I don’t have time right now to respond further, sorry.