If you decide to call someone a c***, you have no place here.

[NanceGreggs]

211. This is supposed to be ...

... a "Democratic" site. And yet it has become a place where calling Democrats vile names, and insinuating (in no uncertain terms) that the Democratic president and other elected D's are sell-out shills for Republicans has become not only acceptable, but is often cheered and K & R'd.

It is hard to ignore the irony that on what is, first and foremost, a political message board supporting Democrats and the Party, such posts are allowed to stand, while implying a certain word that many find offensive is too egregious an offense to warrant anything less than total banishment.

SKP and I have had many run-ins over the past few weeks. So it's not like I feel compelled to stand up for him on the grounds that we were good buds, or in agreement with each others' views. In fact, it was quite the opposite.

However, the fact is that he did not use "the word" he is being said to have used. And I personally don't find "well, we all knew what he really meant" to be a good enough reason to do anything more than "hide" a post many took objection to.

As a staunch Democrat posting on a site that is self-described as being supportive of Democrats, I have had my senses assaulted on an almost daily basis by some of the anti-Dem bullshit that is permitted to be posted here as a matter of course.

So you'll excuse me if I don't run to my fainting couch at the notion that someone used a euphemism for a word that is considered a "big no-no" - on a board that holds itself out as being supportive of the very Democrats it allows the most disgusting, outlandish, and vile things to be said about without interference or consequence.