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| Don’t go, Jonny! Don’t go! |
For months I have poured my heart, my soul, and no small amount of my impotent rage into the Daily Pennsylvanian. I have tirelessly worked to bring to light some of the worst injustices we face as a university and as a people.
I knew going into it that this was going to be a thankless endeavor. But nothing could have prepared me for the brutal onslaught of criticism of my work and even of me as a person.
I submit exhibit A:
You’re lame
- Everyone
Can you even begin to understand the amount of pain I feel when no less than Everyone tells me that I am in fact lame?
And who could forget (or ever expect me to recover from) this comment to my article arguing for a vote on public art installations?
Why can’t there be a vote against the DP taking shitty articles from John Kneeland that try to be witty and facetious but fail miserably?
-Let’s vote!
The quick one-two punch of so cleverly turning my own argument against me in a fiendishly clever act of rhetorical jujitsu followed by merciless use of SAT vocabulary is simply too much to bear.
How could I possibly hope to survive a rhetorical joust with such searing wit as that? Your comments, so small and short, seemed like a small needle–but it was one that was driven right through my heart, leaving me mired in doubt and despair.
I shall take what little sense of dignity and self-worth I have left and leave the savage world of journalism for those with a thicker hide.
You won’t have Kneeland to kick around anymore.
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April 10th, 2007 at 4:57 am
Suck it up! Honestly, what do you expect when you make politically incorrect, offensive, and elitist statements? The controversial nature of your articles breed hostility.
Your entries piss me off A LOT, yet I continue to follow them because they are witty and original. At the risk of increasing your apparently robust ego, I must applaud you for the success of your blog. Any feedback (whether positive or negative)means that you are drawing readers in. I think you should be more concerned if you had no comments.
As stated before, controversy generates hostility. But note, Mr. Kneeland, that the not unwelcome companion of controversy is publicity. Man up and enjoy it.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
NOOOO!!!!! I was the one who wrote that comment about voting you away as well as a shit-load of other cruel jibes but I assure I did not truly mean them! This must be an April Fool’s joke. Your condescension is appreciated and though I respond with resentment, it is only to share camaraderie through reciprocal effrontery. Please do not leave!
April 17th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
say it aint so, say it aint so