> What about racist slurs? Is trailer-trash
> permitted but white, trailer-trash forbidden?
white, trailer-trash should be forbidden if only for
grammatical reasons.
--- billy jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rick, clarify this for members:
>
> Define "gratuitous profanity" and also help me
> understand "non-gratuitous profanity". I want to be
> able to use non-gratuitous profanity (if I deem it
> important) without you censoring me or initiating an
> administrative reprisal.
>
> What comprises a "sexist slur" since we must
> assume that you have intentionally demarcated it
> from the more usual "profanity" to be able to
> monitor it.
>
> What about racist slurs? Is trailer-trash
> permitted but white, trailer-trash forbidden?
>
> Is the visually, literal euphemism
> "f*ckhead"(which you have used in your email about
> the new guidelines) an example of an allowed or
> disallowed term?
>
> So
>
> Don't want to explicitly answer these questions?
> Then you choose to deliberately obscure the horizon
> between permitted and forbidden speech. This can
> only mean that you intend to exercise your edicts
> based upon personal likes and dislikes whether
> about ideas or persons.
>
> Don't like being forced to monitor member's posts
> for content, style and intent? Welcome to the world
> of Stazi informants. You are now the oberstfurher.
> And please dont give me that
Im light with my
> trigger finger. Youve already proved that you are
> easily manipulated by the pathetic sentimentality of
> Bronte and the machinations of New Morning.
>
> So
find the thought of monitoring it all rather
> taxing? Need help to make it all work? Just go
> offline and turn it over to your seconds-in-command,
> your obergruppenfurhers - New Morning for obvious
> outrages, Bronte Baxter for emotionally
> insensitive offences and Edg for intuitively
> recognizable insults.
>
> Oh, and by the way - just so I don t leave anyone
> with any ambiguity, which is what I believe will
> soon happen regularly:
>
> 1. I believe that you, Rick Archer, have
> made an extremely foolish decision to jeopardize the
> independent speech of FFL members.
>
> 2. I believe that Bronte Baxter is too
> sentimental and cowardly to fight for her own
> points-of-view and has cut a deal (consciously or
> unconsciously) with you to create a special FFL
> privileged status for herself. Such a status would
> allow her to speak without incurring the
> confrontation that the rest of us might reasonably
> incur as a result of firmly stating our point of
> view. Based upon the gender-driven definitions of
> Brontes recent emails, and New Mornings insistence
> that you are not doing your job, which you have
> explicitly sympathized with, you are subjecting the
> rest of us to the secret domination motives of these
> two members. I have noticed that Peter is already
> afraid to use language stronger than I agree or I
> disagree when replying to Bronte.
>
> 3. For years Judy Stein has rationally
> slugged it out with anyone who wants to take her on
> and has endured being called slut and cunt. You,
> Rick Archer, have never intervened, and for you to
> do so now, generally and without cause, renders
> Judys forbearance worthless and the duplicity in
> Baxter and New Morns domination strategy especially
> egregious and destructive.
>
> 4. I believe that New Morning has conspired
> to excise the free speech of FFL members. I believe
> this renders her actions nothing less than
> traitorous to the spirit of FFL. I consider her
> efforts not only fundamentally dishonest but a
> blatant attempt to destroy the free-speech integrity
> of this forum.
>
> For you, Rick Archer, to frame these domination
> attempts as just an exercise is like the Maoist
> officer declaring the Tiananmen Square massacre as
> just the end of a democratic experiment.
>
>
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