After several weeks of considering it I have removed Relapsed Catholic from my blogroll. Of course that is of interest to nobody. But the deciding to do so posed a quandary for me.
I kept the site because I felt it important to read people with who I disagree, I think everybody should read people with whom they disagree. But the lack of a comments option and the fact that the site was more and more starting to feel like the blog equivalent of a drive-by shooting got to be too much. But still I have to ask myself: when is it too much? What makes it impossible to listen to someone else?
I haven't read the blog you mention, so this is not a comment about it. What makes it too much for me is when the person/blog/group with which I differ seems to be motivated by hate rather than love, or personal victory rather than authentic concern. And that applies to the ones whose politics I would ordinarily embrace, too.
ReplyDeleteAll of the above, Gord...
ReplyDeleteI agree with Songbird as well. There are numerous reasons to drop blogs, and those are good ones.
ReplyDeleteI hate having to make those choices, but sometimes you just have to.
I haven't read the blog in question either so can't comment on it.
ReplyDeleteI used to agonize over my blogroll ... and then at one point just began blogrolling anyone who blogrolled me. I guess I figure if they are willing to listen to what I say, I am willing to read what they say. Well, except that sometimes I simply don't have the time.