Just a thought

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Maybe there should be a stickied list of pejoratives that are prohibited on this site.

This is a privately owned website. I am no way suggesting that you shouldn't be free to say anything you want about anybody as long as you are willing to live with the consequences but this is a members only site.


This would avoid a lot of confusion.


Thank you in advance.

PEACE
DemocratSinceBirth

[jeff47]

1. Just stick to four or more word pejoratives.

You'll look more eloquent, and be less likely to use an offensive word.

[HassleCat]

2. OK, but...

One person's pejorative is another person's compliment. "Hasslecat is a socialist!"

[Sherman A1]

3. Or

one could simply not use pejoratives.

[NightWatcher]

4. You want me to post it here? Ok, here goes

[bunnies]

5. Agreed.

I didnt even know what that phrase meant.

[uppityperson]

6. Be civil when you post, don't post insults or nasty language. It isn't that difficult. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Will George Carlin's 7 words be the guidepost?

Or, will we be forbidden to say:

hard
Dick
wet
hole
French
muffin
muff
prong
prick
woody
lubricious
horny
stroke
thighs
bush
loins
balls
nuts
come
cock
tongue
finger


And, many, many, more.

[KamaAina]

9. "Doo doo, caca, poo poo..."

"...and good old Number Two!"

[lovemydog]

14. It's hard for Dick Cheney.

While visiting Paris he was wet from the rain and fell into a hole. The French offered him a muffin. He had his ear muff on so he didn't notice, even when someone poked him with a prong. Someone suggested they prick his finger. Woody Allen was there and had a few drinks and was feeling lubricious. A horny goat was in the hole and came by to stroke his thighs. The goat walked over to a bush, girded its loins, played with some rubber balls and ate some nuts. Cheney said come over here goat, this cock and rooster might play with you too. When they saw his tongue wagging, some kind french people threw down a rope. He grabbed on by a finger and was lifted out of the hole. They took him to the Hague, where he was tried and convicted for crimes against humanity.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. ...

[ChristianGrey]

26. +1

[LanternWaste]

8. Is avoidance of intolerant language too difficult for clever people?

Is avoidance of intolerant language too difficult for clever people? I'd have thought even an under-educated dullard like myself could grasp the obvious consequences of sexist and racist language (literal as well as intended) without confusion or hurting my brain too much.

Even more, I'd have thought that even an under-educated dullard like myself knows what is or is not sexist and racist language... again, without confusion.

[bettyellen]

10. It's not hard to discern what racist and sexist slurs are....

Despite those who protest too much.

[NaturalHigh]

11. Well it can be when some people are constantly trying to expand the list.

[bettyellen]

12. if in doubt, choose a better word that is not related to gender or race- EASY.

[NaturalHigh]

13. It's hard to avoid offending the easily offended.

[cwydro]

15. Or the perpetually peeved

and the eternally irked.

[bettyellen]

18. With sexist or racial slurs? I've met only a few conservative idiots in RL that needed to use them..

Or actually needed help figuring out what slurs are.
In real life, very few liberals tolerate that bullshit. I know I don't.

[NaturalHigh]

21. IRL, most people don't get upset when they hear the "B-word" or "P-word."

If one of those is used here, some people go apoplectic.

[bettyellen]

25. I can easily and calmly correct some one. If THEY flip out, then they are the ass.

Not sure where you're going with the P word- I'm going to guess you're playing Possum, lol.

So cute having conversations where "it's just so hard to figure out", reminds me of working with grade schoolers.

[NaturalHigh]

29. Oh it's not hard to figure out.

Most people just aren't offended by the B and P words. Hell I even here the C word regularly in my real life. Only on this board is it a hanging offense.

[NaturalHigh]

27. Who gets to decide what is racist / sexist?

I take it from your comments that you consider yourself an arbiter of "free" speech. We're lucky to have you to tell us what is acceptable. Please forward a list of words that you have decided to ban.

[NaturalHigh]

28. In other words we should censor ourselves even if we see nothing wrong with the word.

I'm a free speech man myself.

[bettyellen]

30. at DU- you already agreed to, if you want to be here.

It's common in spaces where diverse progressives gather to require those gathering to be respectful of those denigtated and denied a place at the table in many other places.

If you want to spew racism or sexism- you are not welcome many places. And this is one pr them. Tough shit.

[NaturalHigh]

31. I'm well aware of the rules. The thing is - the rules on what can or cannot be said...

are not always clear. As you have now lowered the discourse down to "tough shit" I will move along and wish you a good day.

[KittyWampus]

16. Just a thought, maybe it wasn't just the perjorative that got a troll banned.

[Rex]

17. It's real simple, don't say anything you would not say to your mom or dad.

But that won't work for some here. OR, just try and be nice...I tried it and dam if I did not like it better!

[demmiblue]

19. No one in GD will be able to help you with that.

Here is a link to those who actually run this site:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1259

Perhaps they can help you... GD is not the place for your inquiry.

Namaste.

[HereSince1628]

20. All DUers need to know is every stigmatizing reference to mental illness is ok

to use against an opponent.

Years ago the Admin said in a pm to me that the site couldn't function if the use of those terms was constrained; many of them regularly showed up in the pics of the moment.

As long as they aren't used in some manner that breaks any other rule the direction for application of such terms seems to be ad libitum

[seveneyes]

22. What is a meta for?

[fadedrose]

24. The confusion is caused

by some thinking that everything they read is gospel and to be taken literally, and some think the same stuff is cute, funny, witty, or an acceptable way to throw insults...

But members have to abide by rules, as you say, but humor makes things a bit blurry sometimes...