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Entry: The VDare Monologues Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_vdare_monologues#14484 Post contents: John Ball: I've praised you in this space, and read attentively when you've posted thoughtfully. So may I ask you, in a friendly way: Could you please try to be a little more CIVIL on here? It is taking undue advantage of the liberty of cyberspace, ungentlemanly, and above all unCHARITABLE to denounce people in profane terms for intellectual positions--particularly those which they deny holding. Just for instance: Mr. Hoermann has denied that he holds sympathies for the evil government which once ruled his country, and in several places specifically denounced that ideology and its founder. You have no warrant to continue to question him about it, unless he makes arguments which specifically, necessarily imply that when he posted before, he was lying. Given that the accusation you are making against him could actually land him in PRISON in his home country, I should think that more reticence on your part is called for. But this is about more than him. Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Sarto before him, have tried to keep these fora from degenerating into name-calling and personal attacks--the better to allow for intellectual exchange. Could you please help them keep up that standard? Sent at: 2008 09 06