Yes. But I think most people hate irresponsible commentary from the right at least as much as they do from the likes of Nancy Pelosi.
Speaking out civilly in-thread against these posters, and making use of the abuse system is again, the only way I can think of to deal with the problems that indeed all forums are prone by nature to have to deal with.
Well, yes ... but the abuse button only hides bad behavior, it doesn't prevent it. Relying on FReepers to police the bad actors sorta leaves out the most important part of all, which is for individual FReepers to think before they hit "Post."
Obviously I agree with thinking before someone hits the “post” button. I wish we had an edit button as well, but alas we don’t! Anyway, I think the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of posters here DO think before they push the button. Out of all the THOUSANDS of threads and posts that are produced here just in one day, I don’t think this is a rampant problem at all.
As far as the abuse button “hiding” things — the majority of those who get posts pulled are also banned. I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking these comments off the boards! After all, leaving them ON would only lead to MORE accusations of endorsing and condoning the bad behavior. After all, Bill O’Reilly claimed we didn’t ever strike these sorts of posts, so refusing to would be kind of insane, IMHO.
Which is why we should wholeheartedly agree, IMO, with defending against labeling such as this, and call it what it is — an attempt to defame the “character” of FR itself, and a pure political ploy. I don’t want to see our country go the way of Canada with their “Hate Crimes” tribunals and such that FreeDominion was faced with... Which is why I want to defend the rights of posters here — even when they are teetering on the edge of bad behavior...
Okie-dokie, then. It's becoming clear to me... you want us all to censor our speech according to the leftist/liberal/Democrat definition of acceptable speech.