The Harry Watch

Over at Haemtza, Reb Harry is proud that his blog being is a place of civility where insults are not acceptable and contributions are judged by the merits of their substance in a convivial spirit, free of sarcasm and snark. It is in this context that I track these excerpts:

April 9, 2016
In disagreeing with a commenter who questioned Ryan's conservative bona fides (incidentally, without a trace of rancor or antagonism) RHM responds as follows

 "Please. Ryan is a mainsstream conservative. Your characterization of him is nonsense"

There are two interesting things to note about this response

1. His way of refuting the commenter is by placing the (sarcastic) 'Please' in front of a restatement of his point of view. No sevara, no refutation, no conterargument. Just the word 'please', as if to say - don't be an idiot
2. He resorts to the juvenile tactic of insulting the commenter by name calling

This tone does not seem to align with the spirt of Rav Soloveitchik. 

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