Originally posted by ravells
Grun,
As hurt as you might have been about what had happened in Spain, spare a thought about the words (which i shall not utter here) you used and the effect those words would have had on Spaniards who post on these boards.
This is not a U.S. vs. Euro thing. It's just a question about expressing your condolences and showing some solidarity with a people who are grieving. It's common human decency.
You wouldn't have said the words you used at a funeral, so why use them here? Remember that there are real people reading what you say, and in a way, everyone who posts here is an ambassador for his country as well as for himself.
At least you were man enough to apologise, there was at least one twit who went on to try and justify himself and never did.
Ravs
I did express my condolances the day it happend.
Let me explain how I felt hurt the day of the elections and how it lead to all this mess created by me.
All the info I saw on the day of the election from US news sources said that spanish voters made a massive turnaround in the polls because of the bombings. I fealt that if that was true then that the voters then disgraced their fellow dead citizens by giving in to the terrorists and doing as they wanted. That made me incredibly pissed off for 3 reasons as I saw it that day.
1) These people were just murdered by terrorists and a two days later people vote how terrorists wanted them to because of bombings. It struck me as shameful treatment of the dead by thair fellow citizens.
I never said a bad word about the victims, all my anger was directed at the survivors who I felt by the info I had that day had betrayed their dead neighbors.
2) As an American, I felt betreyed because the voters would because of the terrorists vote in a govt that would no longer be with our men and wome as allies at a time of war.
3) Adiitionally I saw many gleeful posts by the usual anti USA policy guys where they only saw this as a victory against the USA and did not consider it could possibly encourge more attacks and kill more people.
With the info I had thats what I saw and thats why I was hurt. I
Now I let that boil over in me over a few posts and my wording got really bad and absuve. Abusive to the point that it went past my own concern for spanish people would feel at the loss.
Thats the mistake I made and when I saw how people gut upset by it and how much they were hurt by what I said, I saw that I had made a mistake in going too far and notbeing mindful of other peoples pain and perspective on this. I realized that immediately and apologized right away. I ****ed up and hurt people.
