> it is about people engaging honestly with sometimes
>difficult discussion rather than throwing a hissy fit every time someone
>blows the Iranians a little kiss.
If you're going to privilege honesty then this needs a correction because the fabulation you offer here is quite a bit off. No "hissy fits" were thrown until months into this and only after Yoshie's obsessive repetition of the same themes.
>it does make the claim
>that Yoshie is a homophobe somewhat counterintuitive, and it does mean that
>one has to make an argument rather than make greasy insinuations which have
>nothing to do with the transactions to date.
Please. You consider this honest engagement? No one claimed Yoshie was a homophobe and suggesting that they did is itself a greasy insinuation.