Today I read yet one more post full of vitriol, inflammatory language, and ignorance.
A post designed to inflame racial and political tension.
Its not the first, the second or the fiftieth, or hundredth or thousandth.
It was disgusting and disheartening the first time; and has become all the more sickening since.
I have reported posts, and posters.
Again and again, I hear excuses for why their posts and they should be allowed a platform.
Why they should be allowed to spew their bile.
Its about 'free speech' [[It is not, the U.S. constitution does not guarantee anyone a right to speak on a privately owned platform, anymore than someone has right to do so in your house).
I've heard that some posters aren't all that bad, if you just get to know them.
These would be people who demean and devalue their fellow Americans and humans based on race, sexual orientation, and political affiliation.
So much so, that in today's post, a suggestion was made that the political left wants more dead black people...........
Just WOW!.
That's not a political position. Its not a matter of partisanship or preference.
Its a matter of blind hatred and nothing else.
I've heard that its difficult to moderate this forum.
But I don't know any other forum of this type where this BS is tolerated.
Its not particularly challenging to ban someone from a forum.
Doing so but a few times would clean this place right up.
So that people who care about Detroit can thoughtfully discuss its future [[and disagree at times).
But the choice has been consciously made to accept racism, homophobia, misogyny, and xenophobia here.
Its not forgivable or excusable. It has doubtless led many more people down the path of racism and hate; and of division.
While a causal link can't be established, I have little doubt the intolerance allowed to fester and multiply here has resulted in real life discrimination.
It is truly shameful.
Rational voices here are shouted down by people who think murdering blacks is ok; and that blind hatred of political opponents is fine.
It wasn't, it isn't, it never will be; and those who clearly believe otherwise should be shamed and left to stew in their own basements, alone, without an avenue to oppress others.
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