Bashing etc.

[427TJ]

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what I find amusing is the anti-nitpicking for certain cars & people, even when it is due.

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That's because nobody wants to stick their neck out and criticize one of the 'big gorillas' and then have their head handed to them by everyone else.

The unspoken rule is that there are the safe (and often defenseless) targets who are easy to gang-up on and then there are the 'big gorillas' that everyone knows are off-limits. It's typical of any gathering of people--we all know who we can dis and who we dare not dis for fear of being thrown out of the group.

What we need to preserve here is the right of all of us to <u>respectfully</u> disagree and to voice our disagreements in a <u>respectful</u> manner without fear of retribution.

Oh, by the way,