The thing that really bugs me about "Stanley Witchita" is that he's willing to assume that I have no sensitivity toward people's feelings, and yet when I give him evidence to the contrary, he won't come back here and acknowledge that perhaps he misjudged me. I even e-mailed him directly and challenged him to respond, but he's disappeared. Maybe if we all e-mailed him continually he'd respond. You can do that by clicking on his name which is at the top of his message where it says "Posted by..." An e-mail window will pop up. Yeah - let's just flood his inbox! If he's too chicken to come out maybe we could force him to change his e-mail address at least. I'm tired of the tactics these people use, including Scott Murphy. They can do so much damage with one statement, then they won't stand behind what they say and the damage has already been done. I'm sure a lot of people would read Stanley's statement and nod their heads, saying he's got a point. Why isn't Haworth sensitive to the feelings of his audience? And they'd form a negative opinion of me, never stopping to consider the fact that I had no way of knowing that I was offending anybody that evening. So once again I challenge you Stanley - are you man enough to admit that I have a valid point? Can you come out and say that you misjudged me before you knew the whole story? If you were in my audience and you were uncomfortable with my show would you (1) walk out and let that be the end of it, realizing that you were the only one out of 30 or so people who didn't care for what I was singing? (2) have the guts to walk up to me and tell me to my face that my material was offensive to you? or (3) write the establishment a letter and demand that I be fired because YOU, the most important person in the restaurant that night, didn't want my voice to be heard? Tell us Stanley - is the first amendment really intended to work the way it did in my case?
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