However, most decent folks were taught manners, and when someone has an embarrassingly emotional reaction to a topic, they tend to avoid it. Doubly so when they respect the intellect of the person, or just like them.
If you have had no such gut reaction to anything I said about the US as I have had to Goldberg's nonsense, that means I have never said anything so stupid and outrageous about the US as he has about Europe and Italy.
Not true; first off, that assumes that my emotional reactions are identical to yours-- highly unlikely, at best--and it would assume that I, as someone replying to your post, would display my "gut reaction" in the same manner that you, as the host of the blog. (The latter is implied, because how else would you know my gut reaction?)
Emotional response is no measure of truth.
Besides which, have you yet read this "stupid and outrageous" writing? Often a synopsis simply leads you wrong.
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Charming.
NObody is allowed or unallowed to say anything.
However, most decent folks were taught manners, and when someone has an embarrassingly emotional reaction to a topic, they tend to avoid it. Doubly so when they respect the intellect of the person, or just like them.
If you have had no such gut reaction to anything I said about the US as I have had to Goldberg's nonsense, that means I have never said anything so stupid and outrageous about the US as he has about Europe and Italy.
Not true; first off, that assumes that my emotional reactions are identical to yours-- highly unlikely, at best--and it would assume that I, as someone replying to your post, would display my "gut reaction" in the same manner that you, as the host of the blog. (The latter is implied, because how else would you know my gut reaction?)
Emotional response is no measure of truth.
Besides which, have you yet read this "stupid and outrageous" writing? Often a synopsis simply leads you wrong.