On Mon, 8 May 2006, Chris McCormick wrote:
Heheh, so what yr saying is that 66% of all disrespect on this list has been directed at you?
To be fair, I'm sure I'm forgetting a few forgettable mails that may have contained flames directed at other people. Else I don't think it's necessarily that I am paranoid, I'm a likely target because I write a damn lot of emails here and because many of them push some peoples' red buttons, and that's not even always in the case of careless language, mind you.
Actually I think I made that joke twice - once was "left wing conspiracy". Neither was intended to be disrespectful at all (or to imply that you are right wing),
I understand the joke even though it makes assumptions perpendicular to my understanding of politics... the left-right spectrum needs be debunked and buried.
but rather a humorous way of saying that I thought you were seeing a unified opposition to your ideas where there really was none.
The opposition is not unified, it's just present enough to be uncomfortable. I was expecting someone to reply to David saying "Pd isn't OOP so OOP isn't welcome here", especially given the kind of reactions I've received on pd-list and pd-dev in the last month or so.
You can think of it as a disrespect of that idea not a disrespect of yourself.
You missed your shot because I was not suggesting that the opposition was unified. To me it looked like you hadn't really read the mail that you were replying to. It seemed like nonsense, and even more so by writing it just after my third point, which is a lot harder to construe as paranoid.
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