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In reply to the discussion: The latest "banning" (NYC_SKP) is an interesting lesson on REPUTATION. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)You could call the Senator a bad word and we could sit back and observe how much outcry you generated, and from whom, but you would probably end up being tombstoned.
I don't think the admins view as their charge the requirement that they coddle or rehabilitate people. Since SKP basically took the POV that people who raise hackles (like the Charlie Hebdo crew) were the cause of their own misfortune, he shouldn't be shocked that his own chickens have come home to roost.
In any event, I've always been on the Just Don't Do It team. It's not all that hard to be civil and not resort to personal insult. And it's not like DU hasn't talked this out--there has been discussion about the POV towards the term in other countries, for example. But the bottom line is that we are not in UK or Australia. Enough people have weighed in over the years and said "This bothers me." There's been a community consensus that 'that' word is a no-go zone. If it bothers people, the polite and civil thing to do is just not repeat the word, or reference it in spooneristic fashion.
Perhaps SKP will take his enthusiasm for anti-Clinton posts to Discussionist. He'll probably get into some interesting conversations there.