me:
> I know I've contributed to the problem, but how about we ban the words > "fascism," "Nazism," and "conspiracy" from pen-l?
Walt Byars wrote:
This would be a good idea if people were still allowed to use these words in their uncontroversial fashion (i.e. Nazis ruled Germany from 1933-45) and this would rule out any automated word filter (is such a filter what is being suggested?)
I wasn't proposing any automatic filter. It seems that uncontroversial uses of these words would be okay. ML wrote:
The problems is likely less the words than people not knowing or caring what
the words mean.< yeah, I wish everyone would define their terms. I don't think there are standard definitions that Must Be Obeyed, but clarity is crucial. -- Jim Devine / "I wanna be with you in paradise / And it seems so unfair / I can't go to paradise no more / I killed a man back there." -- Bob Dylan.
