I have recently realized that I have inadvertantly become part of the DU "purity police", albeit as an entry level.....

[FadedMullet]

..................practitioner. I have in the past bemoaned the fact that some among us find it impossible to just accept it and be quiet when someone here (occasionally me) veers off the path of Progressive/Liberal Democratic Purity in any meaningful way and posts something in that vein. My recent transgressions are more in the realm of correcting minor factual errors and misspellings, but my shame is real.
Therefore, I am today, on this beautiful Sunday morning, pledging to this community of fellow travelers, that it ends now. I will not, in the future feel the need to add my own two cents whenever I have to "suffer" some minor irritation to my low-rent opinions, let alone minor deviations from "facts" as I know them.

There, I feel better already.

[Easterncedar]

1. Well said

We all fail sometimes, and I know I could stand to lighten up a little now and then.

[Permanut]

2. I hear ya..

I posted a grammar police thing a while back and immediately wished I could retract it.

[Tbear]

3. Happy one year DU anniversary

We will forgive you if you promise to forgive yourself.

I am still guilty of said sins against progressivitty after many trips around the sun..

[Tbear]

5. Was that mean testing ya'll like that?

[leftstreet]

4. What's "progressive/liberal Democratic Purity?"

[senseandsensibility]

6. As a former English teacher

I do notice and inwardly object to certain usages, misspellings, etc. But I am able to ignore them because I realize that being a DUer is not the same as being a teacher. In addition, I actually enjoy casual and perhaps colloquial language. It makes posts more interesting. Usually such transgressions don't obscure the meaning of the post anyway. And, as many a college professor has reminded me, meaning is the purpose of language.

[Redleg]

7. Interesting points. My writing at DU reflects how I speak at the spur of a moment

My scholarly writing is much better but also less accessible to people outside my discipline. Know your audience!

[PeaceWave]

8. Probably not a nanosecond goes by here during which someone isn't trying to tell someone else...

...the definition of a "true Democrat." It's a huge tent, with numerous special and very personal interests. If someone who routinely votes Democratic doesn't share your entire world view, that doesn't make them any less a Democrat. It simply means they reside in a different part of the tent. That said, good luck explaining this to those who insist on subjecting everyone else to purity tests. Somewhere along the way, they seem to have missed the message...Live and let live.

[multigraincracker]

9. I apologized to my Anthropology prof

For my bad spelling. She told me if the message is understood, the spelling and grammar are correct. I suffer from dysgraphia, like many famous people. I went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude from that university. Took a lot of work, perhaps more than most.
About killed my mom, an English teacher.