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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)MY worry is that people who tease at slurs get here and are given at best, a slap on the wrist. If you are going to enforce rules, you need to make it look like you are not just trying to please a faction, period. It does not help that the right wing types get Discussionist, and that there is a new site dedicated to you know who. It is not that she does not deserve a site, but here, of all places, do people who are to the left of Billy Big Dawg have to be treated like second class citizens? If we can get slapped off, and another faction gets to stay until they get their sock puppet nicely sewn up, it tells us we are ugly stepchildren. All because we want SOME pressure on Hillary to at least lean leftward, away from the donors that are blasting megaphones in her ear.
Yes, I understand, some people are mad about 2008, the same people that still say "Clinton should have won, Clinton would have fought harder, etc" despite the fact she had to walk back the fact she made her bones by making deals with the right wing, even if they would gladly have her and Bill burnt at the stake. However, the fact is, if you really want to WIN, you will need the help of the very same leftists you would rather get rid of. That is because as far as those coveted "Reagan Democrats", those "independent" voters that are so coveted, they have proven that they will pick a real GOP, because their brains respond to Fox news. There is a reason why we get our asses handed to us every mid term; because we support people like Alison Grimes that will not even admit they do not vote for the GOP, or Debbie Wasserman Schultz that works as hard to bury progressives as the GOP does, then toss away what Howard Dean won for us.
In short, the issue of slur, especially sexist slurs, is a sexist issue. If NYCSkip had used that against a fire breathing GOP Monster, he would still deserve a ban. However, many of us know stalking horses when we see one, and remember how so many good, solid liberals, even ones that turned out to be feminists, were branded with the "sexist" label to make it clear who you better support. Hillary's more rabid supporters did her NO favors by trying to twist arms, and while there is no Barack Obama, they are giving the GOP plenty of Ammo, as Hillary will be pressured to abandon the liberal base, yet again, which means we have to pit an army of wounded marchers versus a rabid base with an unlimited checkbook. The only thing that will beat the Koches is solidarity, and that does not happen unless we act as a family, one that does not feed bread and water to the stepkids while the pretty kids get all the cake they want.