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<p>[QUOTE="Insider, post: 4544633, member: 24314"]baseball21, posted "While none of us are perfect there is a huge difference [<span style="color: #b30059">So you agree! There are different degrees of despicable behavior</span>.] between a bad decision, getting greedy, being dumb, and being a multiple times convicted child molester like Walter Breen which happened over multiple decades. I'm against cancel culture [<span style="color: #b30059">??</span>] but I can make an exception for him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Child molesters are a special kind of evil and it's time for numismatics to stop giving any respect to him or his work especially given all the fairy tales in it. The hobby protected him long enough and it does disgust me that to this day he's still considered an asset to the hobby by many. [<span style="color: #660033">You are free to be disgusted but that changes nothing. Hopefully, one day you'll produce something that future numismatists can use or build on to. BTW, Breen was around long before I became a professional numismatist. He, and Ford for that matter, were venerated as two of the top numismatists of the time. As for the majority of others, it seemed to me to be so pathetic that I'm positive you (Baseball21) are far more numismatically educated than most of the guys <b>BACK IN THOSE DAYS</b>! That's how bad it was! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />]</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Insider, post: 4544633, member: 24314"]baseball21, posted "While none of us are perfect there is a huge difference [[COLOR=#b30059]So you agree! There are different degrees of despicable behavior[/COLOR].] between a bad decision, getting greedy, being dumb, and being a multiple times convicted child molester like Walter Breen which happened over multiple decades. I'm against cancel culture [[COLOR=#b30059]??[/COLOR]] but I can make an exception for him. Child molesters are a special kind of evil and it's time for numismatics to stop giving any respect to him or his work especially given all the fairy tales in it. The hobby protected him long enough and it does disgust me that to this day he's still considered an asset to the hobby by many. [[COLOR=#660033]You are free to be disgusted but that changes nothing. Hopefully, one day you'll produce something that future numismatists can use or build on to. BTW, Breen was around long before I became a professional numismatist. He, and Ford for that matter, were venerated as two of the top numismatists of the time. As for the majority of others, it seemed to me to be so pathetic that I'm positive you (Baseball21) are far more numismatically educated than most of the guys [B]BACK IN THOSE DAYS[/B]! That's how bad it was! :(][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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