Posted by morgan miller on December 20, 2010, at 0:30:29
In reply to Re: Solstice :( I lose hope, posted by morgan miller on December 20, 2010, at 0:05:45
Technically to me, this thread was an example of patronizing. The way Dr. Bob communicates is not always done with any warmth. It's hard to communicate with warmth anyway on the internet when we are just dealing with written text. I also don't think Dr. Bob wants to communicate and probably should not communicate with a certain warmth, friendliness or emotion as he is in charge of running babble and enforcing the rules. I compare this to a police officer that is on the job or a therapist or psychiatrist. There is a line that has to be drawn, a distance that has to be maintained. So, it would make sense that Bob's way of communicating things to a member when trying to get them to rephrase something in a more civil way would sound more like patronizing, as opposed to two friends sitting side by side having a conversation about the same matter. Since Bob is seen as a sort of superior here, and there is a feeling of distance between he and the members, I had no other way of describing his actions as being patronizing.
I simply trying to explain why when I felt the need to jump in and defend Christ_Empowered, I used the word "patronize" and could not think of another word to use. I know I could have left the word patronize out, but I would have still essentially said the same thing. Has it reached a point where we can't use the best word to describe what we saw because someone may be offended by the use of that word?
I'm kinda feeling a 1984 vibe here. I'm sure others have already expressed their concerns over having to watch out for big brother.
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