[GeoStL] Re: You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar

From: "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:29:54 -0600

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From: "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 1:51 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar

 "As to the many suggestions that I should have personally confront the
person:  The person who used "ni**er" posted hate speech directed at Native
Americans on the listserve a couple of years ago.  As Paul pointed out, I
confronted him and was promptly set to no post for confronting the bigot."

"I will not be quite when people spew hate. People being quite is what
allowed Hitler and the KKK to flourish. Hate speech drives people to kill
and do hateful things. People have an obligation to stand up when people
spew hate speech."

If I'm not mistaken, I believe everyone is saying you should have walked up 
to the person as soon as the offending comment was made and confronted them 
right then. That is when you  "have an obligation to stand up" .  But you 
kept quiet at the time.  Instead, you hide behind a keyboard at a later 
date, dragging everyone else into something they weren't aware of and most 
of them would have dealt with on the spot.  This could have been taken care 
of in two minutes when it first happened instead of this big hulabaloo.

Gale

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[GeoStL] Re: You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar

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