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I will try to answer you. At a disadvantage here, since I didn’t read your deleted posts.

However, it appears your post had a racial component to it, since “Hostage” mentioned to you that blacks aren’t the scapegoat.

You can find the rules of Free Republic on the home page, near the bottom; it discourages several types of posts including profanity, vulgarity, personal attacks, threats of violence, and racial/religious bigotry. Free Republic reserves the right to judge posts as to whether they fall under those guidelines.

If you see a post that you think violates the rule, but it isn’t deleted, it could be the Moderators aren’t aware of it and need to be by a poster clicking on “abuse” and informing them. Apparently your posts were deemed not in accord with the content guidelines.

You say you think all should be discussed and debated. I’m saying, those who own and operate Free Republic have the final say about what appears here. If you ran a website of this nature, you would have the final say there.

Thanks for your input. It would seem that race/gender topics are incredibly sensitive these days, so much so that it seems very difficult anywhere, including here, to find a willingness to address issues and engage in discussion in these areas in the interests of greater enlightenment and understanding. I think freedom of speech and thought wins out over this kind of self-imposed ignorance.

I don’t disagree with FR owners’ right to do whatever they want with this site. It seems, as I said, however, more in line with the rationality of conservative thought that the truth will either be found or otherwise survive the debate of differing points of view in the forum of ideas. That’s why true (Christian) conservatism will always have the intellectual upper hand because it overcomes leftist irrationality (like political correctness) and is not afraid of the debate because it has the winning argument.

I should add that I think discussion of these topics is coming (maybe not here) in the form of resentlful backlash. I think it would do those of us well who are able, to openly and frankly discuss these issues so among other things, instead of hiding our heads in the sand, we’re able and prepared to discern the fairy tale from the truth.