Fw: Latham - but really John Brandon

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Leo van de Pas

Fw: Latham - but really John Brandon

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 29 mar 2007 22:33:21

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: Latham - but really John Brandon


"John Brandon" <starbuck95@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1175176508.568189.109110@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...

[Leo had written:]
I think it is appalling and telling how John Brandon takes it for
granted
that he is allowed to be viscious and nasty but others are not allowed
to
call him to task. Pull up your socks and stick to the On Topic subjects,
don't reply messages with your continual "smart" answers (usually more
snide
remarks) and every body will get on happily. How many times has this
been
said? Does John Brandon take notice?

"Appalling," "viscious [sic]," "nasty," how much loaded language do we
need to use. I was under the impression that the on-going tiff was
pretty much standard, low-level name-calling that has been happening
on this group from the beginning. I may be jinxing something, but
where is DSH when you need him? The man didn't know a lick about
genealogy per se, but he could spot the pious fraud, phony moralistic
attitudinizing, etc. from ten miles away.

So Brandon is now reduced to assuming that absent correspondents would
unquestionably agree with him -
----------------------In The Netherlands there is a saying "He who remains

silent, agrees". And because of this people should speak up when they
disagree. .


this neatly illustrates the point that
Michael and I have been making about the negative effect of silence, that
a warped personality can so readily twist into support, or indeed
complicity.

Compared to Brandon, Spencer Hines in his SGM participation was a class
act. In earlier years he contributed a good deal in discussion of medieval
genealogy: unfortunately he became disillusioned with the forum and lost
respect for it, transferring this attitude to almost everyone here.

But I can understand how disappointment with the newsgroup can set in,
when so many people keep quiet while others actively indulge a juvenile
offender like Brandon, and even pay him compliments.

People who come here to help others can hardly be expected to go on doing
so when the net consumers of SGM, as well as many of the regular posters,
think they are absolved from upholding moral and social standards here.

Peter Stewart


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