I am tempted to do a "name and shame"

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Minutes after I had posted about dignity and honesty, I meet with the exact opposite. A (former) friend had posted that the current writer's strike in Hollywood seemed "Ayn Randian" to him, because the writers had brought the industry to a halt by withdrawing their brains. Now that seemed like nonsense to me. I reminded him that what was going on was called trades-unionism, and that Rand did not have much time for that sort of thing. Yes, you know, unionism - the kind of thing that Reaganthatcher was supposed to have consigned to the dustbin of history?

And that was it. Nothing personal; no insults; only a disrespectful reference to a few conservative idols whom everyone knows I have no time for.

So I wake to find my comment deleted and myself banned.

Wow, laddie, that is really brave. That shows integrity, belief in your convinctions, and confidence in your ability to defend them. That absolutely does not suggest that you are terrified that all your ideologies may be built on sand.

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All I know about the Hollywood writer's strike is what I haven't been able to avoid because it has been in the news headlines. I only have a passing acquaintance with Ayn Rand's views. And I have mixed feelings about trade-unionism. But I have had experiences similar to yours with someone deleting comments I've made because I happened to express a view contrary to his own.

My brother has a Live Journal. Fortunately, most of what he writes is about things I'm not interested in, but occasionally there is something that sparks a response from me. I write something, but he misunderstands and takes offence at what he THINKS I said. His response often bears little relation to what I've actually said. I write to try to clarify and he gets even more upset. Before long, he deletes most or all of what I've said. He always insists it is not because I have disagreed with his position but because I have "violated 'netiquette'" in some way. But the "sins" he accuses me of are usually based on a misunderstanding of what I actually wrote, and he also does things on my LJ similar to what he accuses me of having done on his.

Isn't sibling rivalry -- at ages 50+ -- wonderful! (Not!)