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In reply to the discussion: Professor Bans Student for Rape Views [View all]BainsBane
(53,180 posts)and they are seldom hidden. Juries would appear to have less of an issue with MRA ideas than with identifying them as such.
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
Is it really necessary, does it make DU suck less, to call fellow DU'ers "douchebags".
It's also a pretty sexist thing to call people, when you think about it. Calling someone "a jock" is considered praise after all.
JURY RESULTS
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Mar 19, 2015, 11:49 AM, and the Jury voted 5-2 to HIDE IT.
Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: It's not OK, even if it's directed toward a hated group of people. Unles of course it's the right hated group. Or at least the right hated group in the mind of the person using the derogatory term.
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: calling other DUers group names. Okay or not? I say not.
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: MRA Douchebags in the thread: TRUTH is a defense here...
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Give me a fucking break. You're crying sexism while defending MRAs? They are definitely here, and censoring the truth doesn't change that. DUers are not superior to the rest of the human race, and quit trying to pretend they are above it all.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
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Somehow MRAs have been redefined as other than the right. I feel the need to point out they are not only right-wing, they are extreme right wing, far to the right of the GOP. Imagining MRAs as anything other than RW extremists serves as an example of the extent to which misogyny has been mainstreamed. And of course here we have an appeal to sexism to protect that far RW male supremacist speech, whereas those of us who alert on vulgar sexist language about women have learned it's a lost cause.
The Southern Poverty Law Center identifies the sort of rape denial we see discussed in this thread as hate speech. That used to mean something to the left.
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