We have discussed political violence, its use and effectiveness, in many guises and contexts on this site. Sometimes bemused, often condemning, but the fact that it exists, or that it might exist in the future, has never been a subject of criticism; until I mentioned it in the context of domestic US politics. At which point exceptionalism and an attack of the vapours kicked in and I found myself subject to censure and a not-particularly-veiled threat of banning.
So I thought I'd jump before I was pushed. You can't participate if you don't know the rules; as I simply can't understand for the life of me why what I said was wrong it seems that I don't.
I await clarification keep to the Fen Causeway
So if you're still determined to pump the issue up, that's your decision.
I tried to welcome you back to commenting, but if you want to be silly, go ahead. When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Indeed, the only way to be more moderate was not to say anything. And yet the attack of the vapours still occured. Is American politics occuring on a rarified plane where such grubby considerations are unconscionable ? Not so far as I've seen in the last couple of days, yet apparently we aren't allowed to suggest such things. I just don't see why it was wrong and, silly or no, it's undermined my confidence to comment. I'd love to come back but I really need to know why it was wrong.
I didn't know that nobody had been banned, but as we have discussed elsewhere, there is a difference between intention and perception. So I was not threatened with banning, but that's not how it seemed. keep to the Fen Causeway
