Wilbur On An Airplane

On 1/21/2018 8:57 AM, Andrzej Kobus wrote:
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You need to get some professional help. You are obsessed with Sean. I would not be surprised if Wilbur were you. Find yourself something else to do. Maybe spend more time with your kids or take your wife to a dinner. Have a great weekend and enjoy life a bit.
Mercy, Andrzej! Have you arrived late to the party?

All my knowledge of Mr. S. Fidler and Mr. K. Christner has come via RAS, which
I've read fairly regularly for (gasp!) 20+ years. RAS was my initiation into
"general web discussions," which even back then had generally well-earned the
phrase, "Flame suit on..." And, over the years, pretty much with two
exceptions (PW-5, Lennie the Lurker), RAS proved gratifyingly free (to me,
anyway) of ad hominem "discourse." Regrettably - in my view - Mr. S. Fidler
has distinctly raised RAS's ad hominem bar, well beyond the level of the
"common playground bully," and among other things - perhaps you missed it -
seen fit to personally threaten Mr. K. Christner, apparently for no other
reason that I could detect than Mr. Fidler disagreed with Mr. Christner. A
paragon of civil society, Mr. S. Fidler on RAS has not been, regardless of how
passionate he is about soaring and how much he has done to promote both the
sport and his (and others') enjoyment of it...organizing, promoting and
creating two U.S. SGPs springing immediately to my mind.

Somewhere along my life's line I developed what I imagine is the ability
generally characterized as "critical thinking capacity." I can't turn it off,
in fact. One consequence is I routinely form my own
"informed-as-much-as-possible" opinions about situations and people and
behavior, etc., etc., etc. While on the one hand the soaring nut in me is
genuinely appreciative of Mr. S. Fidler's many promotional contributions to
the U.S. soaring scene, I find it impossible to overlook the mass of uncivil,
abusive, bullying, threatening "body of work" he's simultaneously contributed
to RAS. Judging from some comments from others on RAS, apparently others can,
and choose to, overlook the latter aspect of Mr. Fidler's behavior. I don't
find it surprising that someone personally targeted by Mr. S. Fidler calls the
man out. To *not* do so under similar circumstances would - in my view -
arguably be to condone such unacceptable behavior through silence. OK for
biblical Job maybe, but arguably not so good for civil society.

Respectfully,
Bob W.

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