Posted by alexandra_k on November 16, 2005, at 15:06:57
In reply to what do you PBC?, posted by Jakeman on November 15, 2005, at 23:18:42
i don't think we have anybody here from the 'conservative muslim world'. it must be really hard to try and moderate a politics board... i think that pbc's / blocks tend to come out when *posters* are likely to be offended / hurt. i guess it is kinda hard to figure what people may find offensive...
if someone posted something to the effect of being muslim... then i imagine those kind of comments would more likely get a pbc.
with respect to the torture thing...
i guess...
the point that congress (or whoever) is divided about it... shows that there *is* division about it in the us. and given the number of us posters here... it would be fairly likely that at least one poster here might support being allowed to torture suspected terrorists.
and so saying that people who support it should be treated with contempt (or whatever) would have them thinking that the poster is saying that *they* should be treated with contempt.
if you don't like the joke on politics...
then you could post something (civil) about not finding the joke funny and thinking it is a little inappropriate. people are usually pretty good when someone does that respectfully. they tend to take the point.if they do not and they continue...
that might be pbcable.
but i could be way off...
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