Reply #212: And racism, and the use of 'retard' are both regularly deleted already

[muriel_volestrangler]

and the mods will sometimes make posts pointing out the use of 'retard' is unacceptable (I believe everyone already understands racism is unacceptable too).

I understand the paragraph you've repeated in this latest post fine, and with your 2 examples, I agree; but in your second post in this sub-thread, you repeated your hope that there are basic progressive guidelines that can be stated, but you again stated some things that other progressives do not agree with. If your point is only that slurs should not be used about DUers (or Democrats), then that's fine. But that wasn't what you were saying when you said that attacks on alternative health advocates were bigoted and unprogressive. If someone wants to attack a homeopathic practitioner, then that fits in fine with being a progressive and a DUer.

So I'm trying to say to you that the common ground of what is progressive isn't as large as you were saying it is.