If I could erase all the hurtful slurs in the archive it wouldn’t be what we have now ( and possibly a third of the size). I have a handicapped brother and sister And grew up around A support circle that comprised a lot of under-represented people. I find the word highly offensive and the derivatives such as Christard. That being said logging onto a forum is engaging in a social contract where there is implicit opportunity to be offended. I’m actually not a fan of the slur rule. I wouldn’t want the responsibility of adjudicating it and actually recommend it be abolished for a clearer definition of flaming. I’m ok with people being offensive to me and others. I’m not ok with that being the only interaction. Posting repetitive slurs while adding nothing to the topic of the thread, should be corrected, but banning doesn’t seem to be too affective of a punishment for an emotional outburst, or to a troll which are the targets of the rule. I vote no.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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