01-27-2011, 06:48 AM
This is a voluntary community. People are free to come and go as they please. It's run by one guy and we are all guests. This is the original and I have found tons of help here, have found friends here and find that it is a way to stay in touch while I navigate toward my dream. Punaweb has the best writers (ahem), the best community spirit, and the best knowledge base of any Hawaiian site I know of. And you get it all in exchange for following a few simple rules based on civility and mutual respect. To the extent there has been a decline in quality it is directly attributable to certain people focusing on themselves, on their desire to shock and insult in the guise of not being "politically correct".
On that subject, I find it very ironic that those who pride themselves on not being "politically correct" are the most politically correct of all. "Politically correct" used to mean that you were doctrinaire in an unthinking way and conformed yourself to a majoritarian view of what was right, regardless of the evidence. The group that prides itself on not being politically correct is the most doctrinaire and unthinking of all....and therefore the most politically correct. They think the politics of incivility is correct and insist that everyone accept them for their maverick-y ways. Good riddance. This site is about East Hawaii and is an online community devoted to the subject of East Hawaii, and to each other. Those who insist on making it about them and create entire threads of tit-for-tat detract from that sense of community.
As for me, I'm getting my huli-huli chicken elsewhere... Aloha.
On that subject, I find it very ironic that those who pride themselves on not being "politically correct" are the most politically correct of all. "Politically correct" used to mean that you were doctrinaire in an unthinking way and conformed yourself to a majoritarian view of what was right, regardless of the evidence. The group that prides itself on not being politically correct is the most doctrinaire and unthinking of all....and therefore the most politically correct. They think the politics of incivility is correct and insist that everyone accept them for their maverick-y ways. Good riddance. This site is about East Hawaii and is an online community devoted to the subject of East Hawaii, and to each other. Those who insist on making it about them and create entire threads of tit-for-tat detract from that sense of community.
As for me, I'm getting my huli-huli chicken elsewhere... Aloha.