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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2955442, member: 27832"]I was mocking the <i>rendering</i> of his appearance. I've never seen another image of the man that called that association to mind, but with this one, it slapped me in the face. And, to be clear again, that's a criticism of the "artist", not the subject.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I already stated my opinion about that design in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/thoughts-on-the-2018-world-war-i-centennial-silver-dollar.304307/#post-2878099" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/thoughts-on-the-2018-world-war-i-centennial-silver-dollar.304307/#post-2878099">another thread</a> some time ago.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want people to understand what you're saying, you may want to wrap it in fewer layers of vitriolic boilerplate about "political correctness" (which, in my childhood, was taught under the name "good manners"). I honestly misread your point, and I think it was mostly because of that wrapping -- we may never see eye to eye on what constitutes "virtue signaling", but there's no reason to let that hide our areas of agreement. (And yes, I suppose I'm guilty of the same in some of my own postings here.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2955442, member: 27832"]I was mocking the [I]rendering[/I] of his appearance. I've never seen another image of the man that called that association to mind, but with this one, it slapped me in the face. And, to be clear again, that's a criticism of the "artist", not the subject. I already stated my opinion about that design in [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/thoughts-on-the-2018-world-war-i-centennial-silver-dollar.304307/#post-2878099']another thread[/URL] some time ago. If you want people to understand what you're saying, you may want to wrap it in fewer layers of vitriolic boilerplate about "political correctness" (which, in my childhood, was taught under the name "good manners"). I honestly misread your point, and I think it was mostly because of that wrapping -- we may never see eye to eye on what constitutes "virtue signaling", but there's no reason to let that hide our areas of agreement. (And yes, I suppose I'm guilty of the same in some of my own postings here.)[/QUOTE]
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