Quote Originally Posted by kidkboom View Post
Zedeeyen, when I read your post I found that I agree with a lot of the sentiment you detail. When I came to that realization, I developed some high expectations for your output. And I was let down. Not because I disagree with you, but because you failed to meet the commitments you set for yourself, and by proxy, your reader.

At the outset you said you would refrain from attacking the character of the other debater. Yet you could not entirely restrain yourself. On that note, as your reader I took issue with:

"little head"
"sweetheart"

Those are directed at the debater, markedly at odds with your stated intent.
Well, technically, I made no such commitment. What I said was "I've argued only with what you have written in this here thread", which is in the past tense.

But I take your point all the same. Yes, I was snippy.

And as an American, I took issue with:

"mouth-breathing counterparts"
That wasn't directed at Americans in general. It was directed at the specific set of Americans who hold equivalent views to the group of flag-waiving, history-whitewashing fellow Brits I was insulting

Over and above that: I like Hanna, and despite the fact that we often disagree, she's proven herself in the past to be a skilled, interesting, and largely polite debater. In sharp contrast, in your text I felt that I was receiving far less of your interpretations of the sociopolitical landscape in your post, and far more of a bolus dose of a pied angst; whether it's political angst in general, or a response to how you feel you were treated in the above posts, I can't suss out. But if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say, maybe you were mad. I'd like to see what you can do on this topic sans ire; I'd be interested in reading it.
As it happens, I like Hanna too, I just find her insistence on responding to my points not with counterpoints, but with insinuations based on my nationality, to be extremely tedious. I don't think I've really left her anywhere to go with that now though, so we'll see how it goes eh?