Posted by Lou Pilder on January 14, 2003, at 17:59:50
In reply to Re: anti-Semitic language--Rex, posted by Noa on January 14, 2003, at 16:10:25
Noa,
Thank you again in this revised post of yours for writing, [...I do not think that it is helpfull to a distressed poster to allow that poster...to post comments that contain slurs and are offensive to menbers of this...community.And it is not helpfull to the community either...]
The parts that I appreciate are that:
1) you write that you think that the poster in question is not being helped by allowing the slurs
2) you write that the community is also not being helped by allowing the slurs.
I believe that this is important , for if the slurs are allowed, then others can come to this community and write things that import that particular ethnic groups are the cause of their distress. This could lead to the community becoming a venue for hate.
You wrote that you think that the slurs should not be allowed to be posted in this on-line community. I base this on when you wrote,[...as long as he leaves the slurs at the door...].
I agree with you wholeheartedly that when the Gate to this community is opened to all, that the restraint to "leave the slurs at the Gate...]should be self-evident, for this is a mental-health community and ethnic slurs, as you have just pointed out, are not {helpfull}, even to the poster of them.
Thanks,
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:8766
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20021128/msgs/8798.html