Posted by zeugma on February 4, 2006, at 5:52:46
In reply to Re: Let me see if |I understand this? » teejay, posted by tealady on February 4, 2006, at 4:37:32
As far as I can make out, I think they are only shackled if they do not support bbbb's policies?
Can anyone see anything different here?
That is, your allowed to fully express your opinions and views provided you are in support of bbbb's policies or even bbbb himself?>>actually I do not think this is true. alexandra k was blocked despite being virtually the only poster who defended larry's block, and the block occurred in the course of the rather wide-ranging discussion of issues related to said block.
I personally think that if Dinah's precis of the purposes of the politics board is correct, then it might as well be assimilated to Social or Writing. Politics is a nasty business, and people's lives hinge on politicians' decisions. It's no use pretending that politics can be made vague and smiley enough to qualify as 'civil' as civility is defined here.
I think it is a brave experiment of Dr. B to have a Politics board here. But as a matter of fact, smiley discussions that pass as civil are in my opinion actively pernicious because they obscure the true nature of politics.
-z
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