(July 14, 2021 at 12:59 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(July 14, 2021 at 11:45 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: I agree that there should be rules around trolling behavior, but Drich wasn't trolling. He was serious.
Drich's biggest sin was his contention that Cosby's drug and rape victims were not really victims because they should have known what they were getting into. That is a disgusting point of view, but would probably be more prevalent if this discussion were taking place in the 70s or 80s.
People won't just change their views because we ban them.
No, they won’t. But members of the forum who are survivors of sexual assault shouldn’t have to be subjected to his harmful rhetoric.
That’s a slippery slope when one of the main reasons I see in a lot of intros on this forum is trauma from religious guilt and fear. Replace sexual assault with religion and that would make a case for having no believers on the forums.
"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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