Re(5): another talker back Posted on June 2, 2025 at 02:52:39 PM by rman the philosopher
You seem to be really fixated on hypocrisy. I have yet to find a person who isn't hypocritical about something, even being judgmental. Hypocrisy isn't a legal crime nor is being judgmental but both are considered offensive behavior socially and in religion. Jesus talked about both. Remember, "He who is without sin cast the first stone?"
It seems that both judgment and hypocrisy are basically nagging others about similar but not exact behavior we all do, but in our own ways, and when fronted we seem to be more forgiving of our own than we are of others, don't you agree?
More often, we call it 'the pot calling the kettle black.'
Can you explain why you get so upset when I do it but just read it and go on when someone else trashes their corporations or their bosses that seem to care more for the companies than the people in it?
To illustrate that, I can't remember a single case where a radio company doesn't get trashed in here. Well, wait. No one ever complained about Susquehanna like I did about Storz. Is that not being both judgmental and hypocritical when I get nailed for it but everyone else doesn't?
I catch it the worse when I trash corporate behavior and how hard it is for radio people to get ahead in life..and then you have to remind me that I'm being hypocritical by trying to humiliate me? So predictable.
Stalking and tormenting others are about the same but both are elements of bullying and that is considered a higher act of verbal assault that being either judgmental or hypocritical, don't you think? Not innocent judgment, but mean judgement designed to hurt someone or put them in their place along with the rest of the hypocrites.
For those with fewer braincells, let's explain it, "when I DO IT, it's not a social offense, but when YOU do it, it IS." Do I get that right? When this happens in a high school, kids with adolescent minds bring guns and get their names in the paper. Maybe the only reason why you survived high school was that there wasn't the proliferation of guns in every household. That occurred to me years ago when the two boys shot up that high school in Boulder. School administrators ran for cover, when it became known that the two boys were being bullied by the athletic clique in the school. ITs too bad they shot up the library and not the practice field, was all I could think of after watching the principal disclaim the schools inaction in a nationally televised news conference.
Is it judgmental to blame the school for their inaction, or blame the right wing society for excusing their own love affair with guns of mass destruction? We all seem to pick and choose which maladies are allowed and which aren't.
More interesting is that when our identities are concealed, we reveal ourselves to be much more hypocritical and judgmental if our friends dont' find out. Why not just be honest, and when ya do that in this room, go into your bedroom and notice that clean white sheet over your head as you played klansman?
Full circle. Here we are condemning other people conveniently for their bad behavior but either not noticing or just forgiving our own when WE do it.
Since the philosophers among us know these things, we can conclude that we as a species are more forgiving of OURSELVES than we are to OTHERS and THAT IN ITSELF is an act of hypocrisy.
I'd be less than honest if I didn't admit that it occurred to me after awhile that's what I was paid to do when my occupation was doing news. At the very least, we were in the business of publicly trashing people, by name, and even getting mugshots from the cops. It was then I realized professional journalism wasn't as ethically clean as journalists like to claim. We are in the business of finding people at fault and then humiliating them for it.
I learned that from a Wichita News Director who had been my boss and he and his company hired me to replace him. He went into radio sales and said it was a more positive experience in his own head to sell UP his station rather than writing stories that put others down.
So what does a salesman do, Jim? You did that in your career. Wasn't sales really about deceiving the masses about only the good qualities, or even distorting them to get floor traffic in their stores? You would know that. Care to admit the downside of your career, or do you forgive the deceptions when you wrote copy?
Welcome to the world we all live in Jimbo. Now since your'e a writer too, go back to originating your own copy rather than pasting something offa the internet!
You used to do that and even did a fair amount of bragging yourself about your nice house and the free perks you got from your station and sponsors...(stuff Trump gets busted for by journalists!) Heh heh.