Not to mention that by tolerating vigilante groups opens the site up to a significant amount of legal liability. Let the vigilantes pimp their blogs elsewhere. If your interested in that kind of thing, it's easy enough to find. In the meantime, if and when the excrement strikes the oscillator, we don't want to get splattered. And who the heck are these "open border" posters? Anyone I've ever seen posting that crap gets flamed so fast a banning is an act of mercy!
Yep. They serve the purpose of making the rest of look just like the Bible-thumping, NRA membership owning, middle-aged, right-wing extremist males the left stereotypes us as. I'm not sure if it's ALL deliberate but know some of it is. The rest are useful idiots, so basically the same thing.