Comments on: Speaking of Anger http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/ Exposing the ugly truths about the Bush Administration. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Original Black Buddha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-543992 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:56:21 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-543992 For my perspective on CNN's upcoming series Black America: http://originalblackbuddha.blogspot.com/2008/07/special-reports-black-in-america.html The Original Black Buddha For my perspective on CNN’s upcoming series Black America:
http://originalblackbuddha.blogspot.com/2008/07/special-reports-black-in-america.html

The Original Black Buddha

]]> by: The Mahablog » Smoke-Filled Backrooms of the Internets, Continued http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-17442 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:51:59 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-17442 [...] For the record, in the past I’ve blogged about digital lynch mobs and why people should learn to express disagreement without suggesting the person disagreed with should go bleep his mother. This is for the disagree-er’s own sake as well as for the sake of the disagree-ee. As I wrote here, Anger is a tricky thing. It can motivate people, but it can also repel. I wrote last week, for example, that antiwar protests are more effective when protesters are serious but not angry. That’s because people who are not angry at the same things you are will be uncomfortable with your anger. If you want to persuade people to see your point of view, it helps to do it in a not-angry way. [...] […] For the record, in the past I’ve blogged about digital lynch mobs and why people should learn to express disagreement without suggesting the person disagreed with should go bleep his mother. This is for the disagree-er’s own sake as well as for the sake of the disagree-ee. As I wrote here, Anger is a tricky thing. It can motivate people, but it can also repel. I wrote last week, for example, that antiwar protests are more effective when protesters are serious but not angry. That’s because people who are not angry at the same things you are will be uncomfortable with your anger. If you want to persuade people to see your point of view, it helps to do it in a not-angry way. […]

]]> by: The Mahablog » Richard Cohen’s Digital Lynch Mob http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-9460 Tue, 09 May 2006 13:09:48 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-9460 [...] Still, the anger thing does worry me. I am not saying we don’t have a right to be angry. And I have argued many times that the righties have us beat in the hate and fear departments. I get angry, too. But I think it’s possible that this angry left meme, as unfair as it is, could hurt us. (Since when is swift-boating fair?) And, as I argued here, displays of anger are counterproductive to persuasion. Cohen is right about the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helping to elect Richard Nixon. I remember it well. [...] […] Still, the anger thing does worry me. I am not saying we don’t have a right to be angry. And I have argued many times that the righties have us beat in the hate and fear departments. I get angry, too. But I think it’s possible that this angry left meme, as unfair as it is, could hurt us. (Since when is swift-boating fair?) And, as I argued here, displays of anger are counterproductive to persuasion. Cohen is right about the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helping to elect Richard Nixon. I remember it well. […]

]]> by: erinyes http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6626 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:10:51 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6626 Dakini sounds a bit like the Erinyes, the sisters of Hellenic mythology whose name I've adopted, a bit of a fantasy I freely admit.I also admit to anger, but it's a smoldering anger that keeps me on track, not an explosive one like the Berserkers of the Norse or the Amok of the Maylay. Stay hungry, stay angry, inform all around you in a calm but firm way.Visualize the goal, stay on track, victory will come. Dakini sounds a bit like the Erinyes, the sisters of Hellenic mythology whose name I’ve adopted, a bit of a fantasy I freely admit.I also admit to anger, but it’s a smoldering anger that keeps me on track, not an explosive one like the Berserkers of the Norse or the Amok of the Maylay.
Stay hungry, stay angry, inform all around you in a calm but firm way.Visualize the goal, stay on track, victory will come.

]]> by: Swami http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6612 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:54:52 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6612 Frustration seems to be the overwhelming emotion I deal with when it comes to Bush..Why can't people see him for the sham he is ? The article above mentioned about people being jaded to Bush's incompetence..For me, I can tolerate incompetence—it's a human frailty—but Bush is far worse than incompetent..he's decietful, condesending, and arrogant. He's a smug individual who's never had the fortitude or desire to build an honest character. Again, I say..look back to his mocking Carla Fay Tucker's plea for mercy and you'll see the real George W. Bush. " from an abundance of the heart..the mouth speaks" I'm not angry!... :) Frustration seems to be the overwhelming emotion I deal with when it comes to Bush..Why can’t people see him for the sham he is ?

The article above mentioned about people being jaded to Bush’s incompetence..For me, I can tolerate incompetence—it’s a human frailty—but Bush is far worse than incompetent..he’s decietful, condesending, and arrogant. He’s a smug individual who’s never had the fortitude or desire to build an honest character.
Again, I say..look back to his mocking Carla Fay Tucker’s plea for mercy and you’ll see the real George W. Bush.

” from an abundance of the heart..the mouth speaks”

I’m not angry!… :)

]]> by: justme http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6610 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:27:55 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6610 Alyosha...Thanks,, what a great piece! Alyosha…Thanks,, what a great piece!

]]> by: alyosha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6602 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:50:32 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6602 justme, <a href="http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6380" rel="nofollow">this</a> should help. justme, this should help.

]]> by: samiam http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6601 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:12:02 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6601 Oh! Your blog does it automatically, I forgot. Oh! Your blog does it automatically, I forgot.

]]> by: samiam http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6600 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:11:03 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6600 Here's the original Pew research report, if you're interested (sorry, I don't know how to embed links): http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=1 Curious to have your take on it. Here’s the original Pew research report, if you’re interested (sorry, I don’t know how to embed links):

http://pewresearch.org/social/pack.php?PackID=1

Curious to have your take on it.

]]> by: maha http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6598 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:42:36 +0000 http://www.mahablog.com/2006/04/17/speaking-of-anger/#comment-6598 <i>republicans were happier then dems</i> They sure don't sound happy. I'd like to know how that study measured "happy." Sometimes people will say they are happy when they are really deeply miserable but can't admit it to themselves. republicans were happier then dems

They sure don’t sound happy. I’d like to know how that study measured “happy.” Sometimes people will say they are happy when they are really deeply miserable but can’t admit it to themselves.

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