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In reply to the discussion: The Rude Pundit ought to just steer clear of sexist/homophobic [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)language and analogies, he or she put any post involving a Rude Pundit text on ignore.
That's what I do. I don't formally have it on ignore, but I never read it. Rude Pundit is funny. That's his schtick. More power to him, but I usually don't read his stuff because his humor doesn't suit my tastes.
So, let's place a bit of responsibility on DU readers. It's easy to avoid posts by authors that offend us repeatedly. Rude Pundit is what he is. We don't have to read what he writes. We don't have to ban him from Boston either. In my opinion, we are adults and don't need to over-swear or over-prude.
If we don't read posts by authors that disgust us, those posts will sink like lead and pretty soon, people will stop posting them. That's a better way to deal with them than creating a big controversy that divides people (and causes more people to read the original post than normally would).
Those who create a big controversy over offensive posts cause more people to read the offensive post. It's counterproductive and not the best way to deal with those posts.
We have more important things to argue about than whether Rude Pundit's posts are too crude, offensive and undignified for DU.