Is it time for a "fatwa" from Skinner?

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141. Some of the really obviously conservative right-wingers should be banned.

They come here to disrupt, and you can see from the responses to this post who a few of them are.

There are very few forums for progressives and for liberal Democrats.

This was at one time a safe haven for us.

I agree that those who consistently espouse very conservative views should be encouraged to leave the site. I don't know how you do it without making very subjective judgments that could be wrong.

I believe in freedom of speech, but atheists are not generally invited to give the sermons in traditional Christian churches -- for a reason. And anti-gun people are not usually invited to give speeches at the NRA.

This is a forum for forward-thinking, liberal Democrats. The conservatives have their own forums in which they can develop their ideas (assuming they have ideas). This is for us and should be maintained as a safe place for us.

Thanks for posting this. Very hard to implement, but really important to think about.

We can start with eliminating some of the jokers with less than 5,000 posts who immediately responded to this post with nonsense posts. That is the technique that disrupters are using on DU now. If they don't like an OP, they start responding one after the other with silly, off-the-topic posts that make intelligent discussion impossible.