Comments on: Mixed feelings on the Blogger outing http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/ Right of Center, Not Stuck on Stupid Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:14:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Quiddity http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/comment-page-1/#comment-4967 Quiddity Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:09:01 +0000 http://www.politicalbyline.com/?p=10210#comment-4967 Paleo: Okay, I'm cool to that. But it does get my dander up. Peace, bro. Paleo: Okay, I’m cool to that. But it does get my dander up. Peace, bro.

]]> By: Paleo Pat http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/comment-page-1/#comment-4966 Paleo Pat Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:05:33 +0000 http://www.politicalbyline.com/?p=10210#comment-4966 Nope, Just ribbing you a little. ;) Nope, Just ribbing you a little. ;)

]]> By: Quiddity http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/comment-page-1/#comment-4965 Quiddity Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:03:46 +0000 http://www.politicalbyline.com/?p=10210#comment-4965 Do you want to engage in a fight? Do you want to engage in a fight?

]]> By: Paleo Pat http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/comment-page-1/#comment-4964 Paleo Pat Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:27:22 +0000 http://www.politicalbyline.com/?p=10210#comment-4964 To each to his own, I suppose. By the way, how's the Weather in California? :P To each to his own, I suppose.

By the way, how’s the Weather in California? :P

]]> By: Quiddity http://www.politicalbyline.com/2009/06/07/mixed-feelings-on-the-blogger-outing/comment-page-1/#comment-4963 Quiddity Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:08:51 +0000 http://www.politicalbyline.com/?p=10210#comment-4963 I (obviously) don't think it's cowardly to be anon. I value privacy very much. I don't like outing gays no matter what their political status or views (and some conservative Repubicans have been so, much to my disapproval). I think people have a right to hide some of their activities from friends, family, and business contacts. Relatively trivial activities (like betting on horses) to more substantive ones (blogging). If someone takes the trouble to be anonymous (i.e. hidden from view) going to a church, is that person a coward? Is it somehow right to out the person as a Mormon, Catholic, or whatever? Tell their family and employers? Strikes me that outing is a pure act of ad-hominem vindictiveness. I (obviously) don’t think it’s cowardly to be anon. I value privacy very much. I don’t like outing gays no matter what their political status or views (and some conservative Repubicans have been so, much to my disapproval). I think people have a right to hide some of their activities from friends, family, and business contacts. Relatively trivial activities (like betting on horses) to more substantive ones (blogging).

If someone takes the trouble to be anonymous (i.e. hidden from view) going to a church, is that person a coward? Is it somehow right to out the person as a Mormon, Catholic, or whatever? Tell their family and employers?

Strikes me that outing is a pure act of ad-hominem vindictiveness.

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