Reply #93: Your Reply, Beaverhausen

[arwalden]

<< "How do you feel when you hear democrats and liberals criticized?"
Posted by Beaverhausen >>

I look at the criticism to see if it's deserved or warranted. If it's unwarranted, I'll try to make rational arguments as to why it's wrong or unwarranted.

What I won't do is break DU rules and make personal attacks against the messenger in an attempt to get the thread locked as "flame bait" or to have the subject become prohibited. I won't try to insulate my favorite organizations from being scrutinized with my own bad behavior.

<< Maybe you don't but I take it personally. >>

Well, frankly... that sounds like a personal problem to me, Beaverhausen. I don't know how to help you cope when an ORGANIZATION that you happen to support is the target of criticism.

<< As if every democrat agrees on everything. >>

Irrelevant. That's not the point.

<< As if we should all be blamed for what one person or one small part of the group does. >>

Also irrelevant. I'm not blaming you for anything.

<< Do you acknowledge that PETA has done some good for animals? >>

I think any good that they may have accomplished in the area of animal advocacy is undone by the fact that people universally view Peta as crackpots and kooks. They are extremists, and self-serving opportunists.