tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post5887573286858953257..comments2023-05-13T08:06:53.033-04:00Comments on Prettier Than Napoleon: Let's you and her fight.Amberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11792206117772893217noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-25052702265055825662009-12-11T16:41:24.425-05:002009-12-11T16:41:24.425-05:00Agreed that he overreacted based on just his post ...Agreed that he overreacted based on just his post (there may be a longer history there that I'm not aware of that might provide more justification). <br /><br />But he didn't impute the commenter's views to Althouse, the middle-aged white woman clutching her pearls as she passes the brutish young black man. He's instead having something more of a dialogue internal to the black PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-4659132961875438362009-12-11T15:35:26.533-05:002009-12-11T15:35:26.533-05:00Even if Althouse is a bit over-upset to the f-word...Even if Althouse is a bit over-upset to the f-word, I nonetheless think TNC's reaction to her misspelling was the greater fault. And his linking to the comment as implicit ammunition against Althouse was just dumb.Jessicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-23010528312619915992009-12-11T13:45:15.072-05:002009-12-11T13:45:15.072-05:00Points to Althouse for intellectual honesty, thoug...Points to Althouse for intellectual honesty, though -- her "spelling" tag on the post opens to a plethora of posts by Herself complaining about people's spelling, <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/01/media-matters-doesnt-understand-word.html" rel="nofollow">including of her name</a>: "And you know, spelling a name wrong some of the time is actually dumber than spellingPGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-61003234361111215322009-12-11T13:30:33.202-05:002009-12-11T13:30:33.202-05:00If she doesn't care about the obscenity -- if ...If she doesn't care about the obscenity -- if she would have had an identical reaction if he'd gone the safe-for-primetime-TV route and made it "Forget Althouse" -- why title the post "Why is Ta-Nehisi Coates shouting <b>an obscenity</b> at me?" and harp on the use of the f-word for the rest of the post: "he curses me" "spewing an obscenity at me"?<PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-36977724810342353602009-12-11T13:22:52.609-05:002009-12-11T13:22:52.609-05:00I found most of that exchange completely incompreh...I found most of that exchange completely incomprehensible.cdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-49518198631100004992009-12-11T10:49:57.892-05:002009-12-11T10:49:57.892-05:00hmmm. I don't think Althouse's reaction i...hmmm. I don't think Althouse's reaction is because of the obscenity -- I think it's more about TNC's overreaction to the misspelling. I have a difficult name to spell, and I don't take it has a sign of disrespect when people get it wrong...Jessicanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6574772.post-35413911551737143642009-12-11T06:34:56.148-05:002009-12-11T06:34:56.148-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com