NYC_SKP has been banned

[JDPriestly]

258. I will miss NYC_SKP. We did not always agree, but I think that banning him for making a joke

on a word play was not right.

This is a discussion board. As a Bernie supporter, I do not always feel very welcome, but I keep posting because I think Bernie is the right candidate for our country at this time.

I can understand how frustrating it must be to be, as some of the moderators have admitted they are, a Hillary supporter. She is now and was in 2008 a very touchy candidate, overly sensitive to criticism, without much sense of humor no matter how hard she tried to laugh and she has made some serious mistakes of judgment.

That said, when asked to judge posts, I try to be as tolerant as possible. I do not consider whether I agree or disagree with the sentiment or the jabs in the post. I just try to consider whether it is seriously over the top, etc.

I don't think NYC_SKP's post was all that over the top. Borderline maybe, but really. I'm a woman. NYC_SKP did not call Hillary a name. He simply did not. The naughty, wash-your-mouths-out-with-soap transgression was a word play, a funny one. If Lenny Bruce had said it, we'd all laugh.

I think somebody on DU was overly sensitive.

But I kind of understand it. After all, it must be frustrating to support a candidate who has been giving $200,000 a pop speeches to Wall Street bankers for the past few years but refuses thus far to talk regularly to the press. Very frustrating. I don't know what you call a candidate like that, but I'll leave it to your imaginations.

I assume that on June 14 when Hillary finally announces the inevitable and deigns to speak to the press, her supporters will return to normal. I just hope that once they get their senses of humor back, we can get NYC_Skip back here on the Bernie side of DU.

I wish that Hillary could have just a bit of Bernie's humility and ability to laugh at herself. It would make things so much happier on DU on both the Hillary and Bernie sides. We shall see. Miracles do happen.

Sign me, Call Me Anything. I've Probably Been Called It Before.