We droned the shit out of Yemen. No one talks about it here. But everyone's talking bout it in Yemen

[Divernan]

83. It's the luck of the draw with the jury system.

A different jury might have supported your post. What's interesting to me is that I've been a member of DU since 2002, and have been asked to be on a jury only ONE time. I see posters here only a few months, with only a few hundred posts, and explanatory "scores" lower than my 80%, who have been on many, many juries. My "score" is currently 80%. The post of mine which was blocked was a quote of Thomas Hobbes. I have a master's in sociology, and Hobbes was the modern founder of the social contract tradition, influenced by Plato & Aristotle. I quoted him re his statement that "life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish & short." I got an hysterical reply that Hobbes should never be quoted because "everyone knew he was a racist." I believe the phrase, promoting the genocide of indigenous populations" was used. Who knew Hobbes, and Plato and Aristotle by implication, were worse than Hitler? Certainly not any sociologist of my acquaintance! Rather than have an opportunity to reply in detail and provide some education, I was alerted on and the jury voted against me. Jury comments indicated they had a knee jerk response to the shout of "racist" and there was no indication that anyone on the jury had ever heard of Thomas Hobbes or the social contract.

I don't anticipate any changes in the jury system. All we can do is keep on posting in good faith and to the best of our abilities.