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Originally Posted by PurpleLass
It is quite easy to bully with words, by calling people's views stupid or by calling people silly for believing in those views.
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Forgive me, but I was always under the impression that us northerners were above such effete southern nonsense. We are justly famed for calling a spade, a spade! When I was younger there was a rhyme I was taught at school which ran something along the lines of: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
What is wrong with saying that an idea or a statement is stupid, if that is what one thinks it is? What would the grandee's of Political Correctness have us call it?
The point of complaint against Councillor Jones, as I see it, is that he had the temerity and lack of taste to describe the majority of board members as right wing and members of the BNP without any evidence to support his statements and has since decided to absent himself from the board, thus depriving aggrieved members of the board the opportunity to challenge his assertions. That isn't bullying, it is moral cowardice and is something that all politicians are pretty adept at.