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In reply to the discussion: They are getting close to silencing 1StrongBlackMan [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)outrageous, not when the post is merely argument and/or discussion. I generally will not vote to remove post unless it is really, really outrageous. A nasty post says more about eh person who posts than it does about the person to whom it is nasty although there are limits.
I have noticed that some DUers are overly sensitive about arguments. I am not. But I know that some people cannot bear arguments that seem to be disputes or dissension. I have a friend like that. I grew up in a mid-sized family with siblings. I am inured to disagreement. In fact, I thrive on it a bit because it makes me stop and think and understand how other people see things.
I don't carry grudges against people who have different points of view from my own. It is against my principles. I rarely, extremely rarely, almost never report a post on DU for any reason other than that it is an obvious troll. I just can't think of an occasion when I did that.
And I hope other people join us in this cautious approach. Some people actually get into arguments with other DUers that go on and on. And some are very intolerant of open discussion. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. I don't mean to be rude about that, but we need to be thick-skinned on DU. This is, as many know, not the first time that I have criticized DUers for intolerance of someone who has been on DU a long time, contributed a valid point of view or in another case made a mistake in making what seemed to me to be a stupid joke on DU.
Let's don't remove posts so quickly. Let's be tolerant. Let's remember we are here to learn how we can improve the world together and not to beat up on each other for our differing points of view.
Hope OneStrongBlackMan will be back soon. Forgive and forget -- or better yet, don't get mad in the first place.