Fuck you~~~
Free went and dug this up and you didn't respond, so I'll just copy it here for you! Note your assigned motive from the get go~
Free's post to you:
I haven't listened to Rush, for more then 15 or 16 years; but Damo, you did make the following post:
I put the specific "assignment" in bold.
Now, back to our regular programing.
You can keep offering because it is somewhat flattering, but alas I am married.
And again, this is what messageboards are about. So I can repeat to those people who wish to maintain their deliberate ignorance the same thing in different words again and again until they tire or they say, "OH, that's what you meant..."
I have maintained the same position throughout, starting with foundation blocks (an assertion) then adding to it to make the edifice of a full argument. That you refuse to look at the building because you want to continue to believe that all that can be is the foundation doesn't change that the building stands, and it was consistent, even if you offer to have more sex with me after quoting a post out of context.
I view a conversation like this as an engineer (I view everything that way, it is what I am), I start with a foundation then build further, if necessary either because of questions or because of deliberate distortions, until I have the edifice standing showing my full position.
You may refuse to look at the north face of the building, but I will keep showing you pictures of it. You may pretend that a building isn't there, but others can see it regardless. At some point arguing whether the building is there becomes a waste of time, but messageboards are largely an insanely addictive waste of time, and so I plod on.
My point in that post was that "They do it too" is the same as saying "parody." It did not assign a motive to the song, it solely pointed out that the excuse "parody" was as childlike as the "they do it too" argument and was not good enough in this case.
My first post about it acknowledged both that the article was the basis for the song, and that the phrase was first written by a black liberal article writer neither of which changes my basic point. I will again refer you to the fitting analogy that every parent understands clearly (even you do, and you know you do it is just stubbornness that compels you on now). If I find my daughter shouting the f-bomb in the street, she's going to be in trouble. It won't matter if she tells me, and you back her up, that she was just making fun of somebody else who said the word to her earlier. It won't matter if she intended it as an insult or not. This is the same type of scenario.