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PeonForHer -> RE: Margaret Thatcher Dead (4/8/2013 4:12:07 PM)
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ORIGINAL: muhly22222
I understand that many people didn't like her. I understand that her policies were very polarizing. I understand that her death is a natural time to discuss her legacy, good or bad. But there's a difference between criticizing those policies and saying things like: [etc]
If you were here, muhly, you'd hear that, much more of it, and much worse.
Look, seriously, for those that are attempting to invoke 'good manners', 'sympathy', 'respect for the recently departed' etc, etc - can I suggest that you stop wasting your time and energy? People just are going to vent their anger here. You might as well argue against the weather.
Every time I hear the phrase 'good manners' in regard to this issue, right now, I think of Thatcher's government sending London coppers up north to help quell the miners' strikes, then coming home to talk gleefully about taunting those miners with lines like 'I'm on overtime, so I can afford a good Christmas - and you're only on strike pay, you cunt'. My own father was one of those coppers.
That was *not* good manners. Do you see? You're on a hiding to nothing. Sarky meows from high horses aren't going to cut it here.
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