The esprit d'escalier is a French expression which literally means "the witty rejoinder of the stairs" -- meaning a witty rejoinder that occurs to someone only after they've left the party and are already on the stairs leaving the room (i.e., too late).
In a posting a few days ago here, I was complaining (yet again) about a long-time veteran commenter on Jihad Watch (and hence member of the Readership of the Counter-Jihad Mainstream), one "Wellington", who back in mid-May made the following demand of my favorite Jihad Watch commenter, "The Big W":
thebigW: What the hell are you talking about? Who here at JW is fine with Muslims in a Western nation but not OK with Islam in a Western nation? The burden of proof is now on you. Please explain yourself.
When a few days after that I penned another posting about old Wellington, I had forgotten about that previous one. For, with exquisitely painful irony, and as I documented in that posting ("Give me a cup of REAL, strong, black... decaf tea"), Wellington himself has uttered statements that clearly indicate he is fine with Muslims in a Western nation (in this instance, America)!
For example:
Muslims in America... are simply not mass-murdering Americans. Yes, there are numerous Muslim atrocities in America over the past twenty years or so but the chances that an American will be killed by a Muslim still remains infinitesimally small—-a tiny, tiny fraction of a 1% chance.
Or:
...the vast majority of Muslims in America, confused human beings though they are (on this I know we can agree), do not commit any ACTS which are prosecutable.
And much more, which I delve into at length in that aforementioned previous posting, indicating that Wellington apparently considers Islam's Muslims to be a static problem for the West, not a metastasizing problem with a catastrophic vector leading to our society's physical destruction.
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