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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Ummm no I didn't say anything like that.
I said if people find something offensive to let us know so we can consider it. Did I say that we would automatically "censor" anything?
I did not.
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If you would even consider deleting a multi-year, multi-thousand-post thread, to which hundreds of users have contributed, because ONE anonymous person on the Internet claimed to find it offensive, then you are censoring with a far broader brush than most professional censors would dare to apply.
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Are people really upset that they can't use a childish name like "sisters" anymore?
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There is such a thing as principle. To paraphrase Voltaire, I say this to people who use the term ‘Sedin sisters’ to refer to the NHL players:
‘You look like a perfect fathead saying that, but I will defend to the death your right to look like a perfect fathead.’
When people actually speak truth or sense about any controversial topic, they will look like fatheads and worse to those who take the position opposed. If the principle is granted that appearing to be a fathead is grounds for being silenced, no substantive discussion of any topic will thereafter be permissible.
As I mentioned before, my own profession has been virtually ruined by the practice of silencing people for any form of speech that some self-appointed Internet cop deemed ‘inappropriate’ or ‘offensive’ (usually by saying that they themselves were not offended, but some third party might be). It soon led to organized campaigns to expel people from the profession for making statements that did not agree with the political, religious, and social agenda of the prevailing ideological claque. I know people who lost their livelihoods over it, and people who were harassed to the point of having mental and physical breakdowns.
The language you use strongly suggests that you would be on the side of the self-appointed cops in this matter. If true, that would be reprehensible.