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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Tim Courtney wrote:
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Looks like there are some who want to make this a place where only one type
of opinion is respected.
Sad. And, may I mention, bad for the community?
-Tim
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I don’t think so. Someone wishing that one set of voices be silenced (or that
they “shut their ignorant piehole”) doesn’t mean that it’s going to happen.
Them saying so gives the community a chance to respond and determine its stance
on the issue, whether for or against. I would say it was bad for the community
if it didn’t generate, evaluate, and form responses to extreme opinions and
offensive behavior.
Is there anything wrong with Alfred being “disappointed to find out what side of
the issue you’re on?” My opinion is that it’d be bad for the community if him
expressing that disappointment wasn’t allowed.
I personally find many of the posts in this thread (on either side of the issue)
to be unbelievably myopic, and several (on one side in particular) to be
completely ridiculous. But I haven’t seen any that I think are “bad for the
community.” In fact I think this type of frank and open discussion is vital to
a community’s health.
And who can say? Maybe there are some issues where only one type of opinion
*should* be respected. If someone asks to start newsgroups for
“lugnet.fun.child-molesting” or
“lugnet.build.bludgeons-for-beating-jews-to-death,” then those issues each have
one side that deserve zero respect. And those are equivalent to how the most
vocal posters view the Lavendar issue: it’s either about inexcusable perversion
on the one side, or it’s about inexcusable dehumanization on the other. Having
no respect for the opposing position is completely valid under those points of
view, and people should be allowed to express that, whether or not their point
of view is justified in this or any other particular instance.
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