RTP-area local music and culture

["rick sawyer" <rickbang AT gmail.com>]

perhaps it is you who needs a lesson in the meaning of irony.

irony:

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  1. The use of words to express something different from and often
opposite to their literal meaning.
  2. An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast
between apparent and intended meaning.
  3. A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or
rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit1.


so, you write the sentence, "yeah, it means you're a homophobic
prick," and you're not being ironic?

and any offense i took was from the obviousness of your point.

rick.

On 5/14/06, Todd Morman <tmorman AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
>  > i got the point in the first place.
>
> No, you don't get it. I wasn't levelling any sort of charge at all, and
> certainly wasn't being "ironic." It's stupid to level that sort of charge.
> Period. There was nothing essential lost in my boiling down. Period.
> Frere-Jones attacked Merritt as racist *without offering any evidence
> whatsoever,* has offered only a half-assed apology for using the word
> "cracker" and continues to minimize the seriousness of what he did, playing
> it as a light-hearted "gafuffle" when in fact it's much, much worse.
>
> If instead of saying "Yeah, it means you're a homophobic prick." I'd have
> written "Well, according to Sasha's argument, it means you're a homophobic
> prick," we wouldn't be having this argument. Since your emotional reaction
> to that first sentence seems to have made you incapable of understanding the
> "That *is* how this kind of smear works, right?" that immediately followed,
> I'm going to drop this.
>
> But not before noting that someone who starts a thread by "despising"
> someone and their art is in no position to call out someone else for being a
> hater.
>
> todd and you calling me a sarcastic jerk is truly hilarious morman
>
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