Let's take a moment to reflect on my original post in this thread, and the context. Midcan had written a relective piece on Rev. Wright, and his appearance on PBS's Bill Moyers Journal. I had seen that episode and other, more in-depth discussions of Wright's career, and those pieces presented him as a more complex person than the youtube clips the news had been repeating ad nauseum.
In other threads, I had voiced my disagreement with some of Wright's comments, but also my disagreement with people who acted as though they didn't need to know anything about Wright except his most controversial statements. I was referring to those people when I wrote:
I don't respect the intelligence of anyone who focuses on a narrow slice of an issue to the exclusion of other factors. I think it is stupid to ignore in-depth material and act as though the brief clips are all one needs to know. But that opinion applies only to those who behave that way; I never said or suggested that it applies to people who gave the matter a little consideration and disagreed with me nonetheless.
And the haters? Most of them had applied the term to Wright in other threads, so I used it here. Once again, I never applied that term to anyone just for disagreeing. I just warned midcan that the haters would be coming. But Yurt accused me of using that term for those who "disagree with wright or me", even though I said no such thing.
But that didn't stop Yurt, gunny and Swamp Fox from reading into my post something that just wasn't there.