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The Kost of Censorship (Or, A Chink in our Armor)


I hate censorship. I really really hate censorship.

I don't post at DKos, though I'm a member, because although I like Markos it looks like utter chaos over there. Being a totally and chronically misunderstood person myself, I'm very sensitive to the idea of a community being able to "rate" my contributions. I'll rate myself, thank you very much.

I like to stay out of these things entirely - anyone who finds flame wars interesting, I got tired of them before you probably even knew what a modem was. But I saw one exchange I thought was telling and instructive.

Someone wrote a very well-constructed post about using the word "nigger" and put the word in the title. The diary was one of the most recommended for today - it's still there. But someone from the site censored the word out of the title with this comment:

I think it is an embarrassment for this site that it was recommended.

Daily kos has always had a race prblems and this diary is the stunning proof.

Whaaaaaa....? Who asked you? The community votes it one of the most worthwhile diaries of the day, and someone overrules them and slaps them down?

(And before someone accuses me of being inconsistent, I draw a distinction between a community being able to punish someone and being able to recommend someone. That's my rationale and I'm sticking to it.)

Not the place for me. I'll hang around here.

Updated:

A later post by the same honcho says (asterisks mine):

All you "enlightened folks" who are going to do the "Clobert on Kikes, Spics, Chinks, C***s, etc." series, do understand you can not put those words in your titles period.

Political ads. Revenues. Bill paying.

Think about it. If you can't think of anything other reason why you shoud not do it.

Think about it? You said a mouthful, buddy.

Coulter's Constituency


Every rational person who has heard of her has made up their minds about Ann Coulter by now. Truly an awful, awful person on every level. So why won't more of these "family values" types speak out against her?

I'll tell you why. Hate her if you like, but she has a consituency. It is a simple ugly fact that she speaks for the right wing in general.

That's who they are. Next time you see her, realize that you aren't looking at one whacko; you are seeing the true black heart of the right wing. Far from being an isolated nut case, they secretly love her because deep down she's saying what they really think. She simply has the nerve to say out loud what her fellow-travelers confine to blog comments.

Which explains why, no matter what, Republicans in general would never disavow her. She's speaking for their base. They can't call their base insane, no matter if they are or not.

I weep for this country. I see so little hope for a country that has slid this far off the path of basic human decency.

Kaboom! What do I win?


Okay, I'm the one that called it only last week. I won. I want full credit!

Marshall Wittman's head finally exploded. Shattered into a million pieces. Very little brain to clean up, though. The office will be ready by Tuesday.

In a mid-June meltdown, the immoderate "moderates" of the Democratic Party have surpassed themselves over the last few days with an absolute orgy of hair-on-fire paranoia. Lieberman has committed political suicide with his to-be-famous-forever bearcub ad and now The Moose is calling Markos and the execrable Ann C**ter "kissing cousins".

Excuse me, Marshall. May I call you Marshall? Okay, fine. Excuse me, idiot. Ann C**ter has no "kissing cousins" on the left. There is simply NO ONE on the left, much as you phony Democrats and Republicans might wish so, that goes beyond the pale in the way C**ter does.

The fact that you think they are equal says worlds about you.

They deserve each other. The primary difference between the two is that the Republican Party leadership does not grovel at the feet of Coulter nor do their Senate candidates give her a staring role in their commercials.

You just can't stand it, can you, Moosehead? It's called Democracy with a large D. And it's going to put you out of a job.

It really is time to put Marshall Wittman out of a job. We have enough enemies without tolerating phonies in our own party. Get this guy OFF the air as a spokesman for Democrats, and put him OUT of a job.

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