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Xithras

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12. I think it's great that on a message board where anyone can alert...
Fri Sep 14, 2012, 01:18 PM
Sep 2012

...the vast majority of "content" alerts are kicked back by the jury. I've adjudicated many alerts where someone was simply unhappy with someone elses opinion. In every case, the other jurors kicked the alert back and left the post alone.

Besides, there's a pretty fundamental difference between private speech and public speech. I would absolutely defend someones right to advocate an anti-Muslim opinion on a street corner. Offensive as it is, it's protected.

Advocate that same anti-Muslim argument in my living room and I'll throw your ass out the door before you can finish your sentence. You have a right to speak in public, but I don't have to listen, and I sure as hell don't have to allow it in my own home.

DU is Skinners living room. We're just here for the party.

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