We have our own War on Terror right here on DU!

The preferred weapons of the terrorists here are words. Yes words. Mere words. Signified by dark symbols on a white background. Easy movable shadows on a screen that blow up in the eyes of the victim, so that the dirty words are the only thing they can see.
Quit often the true meaning of the word as used, is lost in the sheer terror of some by just seeing it on their computer screens.
Horrible, terrible words that cannot be spelled out, without incurring the wraith of the self appointed terror victims. Horrible words like the In*ne word or a totally obscene word like the "T*t" word, as in "T*t for tat". How dare someone use an obscene slang term for a woman's body part as if it had no connection! Think of the children! Never mind that some were br**st fed themselves.
Words in a widely spoken language with roots in a large number of other languages. Latin, French, Spanish, Greek, German. And of course, Old English - from which our dirty words really come from.

What is worse are the words we do not even know are dirty words. Horrible, evil words like "Hy**eria", "Orc**d", "Se**nar", "Av***do", and many more words too dirty to put on paper or pronounce.

Students don’t want Minnesota lawmakers to ‘get out of jail free’

Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Actually, he is not a liar.

To lie, one has to know the truth. Too many Conservatives cannot tell reality from what they wish it to be. Reality for them can be anything that gets them what they want.
They actually do have mental impairment. This is not in anyway hallucination. This is simply the way they perceive the world around themselves.

Because the more Conservative one is, the more likely one is to have religion.

And the more likely to have strong beliefs in total non-sense, like for instance, Creationism. And the more likely to want to foist their religion on others through law.
The very reason for the Separation of Church and State in the Constitution and the reason people started coming over here form Europe in the first place.

My question however is, If religion is so true, If there is only one God and we are supposed to live out lives the way He wants us to, then why are their so many flavors of religion? Why are there so many different flavors of each denomination of each religion. Christianity even? There are far fewer political beliefs, over all, than religious beliefs.

Surely, if religion were true, there would be far less differences among all the religions. A look in any local phone book should convince most people that there is something wrong here. They all can't be correct. No way. They run the from straight laced conservative to quite Liberal churches like Unitarian Universalist. And almost every singly one of them thinks they are the only way to correctly believe. The more conservative, the more rigid.

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This is a political web site. Or at least it still pretends to be.

And we are chastened by some to not denigrate anyone, anywhere, their actions or their sensitivities, because some words might invoke negative feelings in another DU'er? Even though some of these objectionable words were/are use against a Republican for something dangerous or stupid that the Republicans want or did?
Do the women need to be protected from some words and the men need to be protected from others? Are we so vulnerable to mere words, are we are so defenseless, so delicate, that we have to add evil words to an ever growing list, to remind ourselves not to use them? so as to keep ourselves from curling up into a ball?
Not calling out any one DU're, group or running them down, as per the rules should suffice. It worked with DU2 But this list goes way beyond the rules.

This is not the fight we are here for. This is not the reason DU was started in 2000. That reason is still alive and well.
Maybe we should concentrate on stopping the Republicans/Conservatives, who are doing far worse than using objectionable words against us. Could we handle it, if they did start using those bad words against us? I should hope so.

Keep it up and DU will be fit for Sesame Street. Many main stream news stories will eventual be deemed to rough to post here. We are losing sight of our goal with this cleansing of DU. I can see that happening with DU3. How did DU2 survive for so long?

We are not each others enemy. Why do we allow a few to distract us so? And it is just a few. Why do the rest of us we allow this infighting?
Making a big deal of some words sensitizes us to them. Suddenly, that is what is important. We see the word everywhere and we get focused on it. We forget what we are reading, what is being discussed. What is really important. The message itself is lost. The discussion get derailed. The thread or post gets alerted on and another trifling, shiny object gets polished to be bragged about in Meta. For what? So we can say we are better than someone else, 'cause we don't use that kinda language ourselves?
I don't normally use those "objectionable" words. I am objecting because the words on that list are in reality nothing more than a shiny object for DU to focus on while the real enemy keeps working toward its goal of total control, while we are distracted from it, with our infighting.

Leave it alone and it will go away on its own. Oh yes, it will. This constant harping among ourselves is shifting the focus of DU from the dangerous powers that be in the real world, to the mirrored chamber that DU is becoming.

Democratic Underground is not grammar school. Stop trying to make it safe for the children like it is one.