Should a liberal blog suppress speech? I don't think so.

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Friday August 05, 2016 · 8:46 AM PDT

2016/08/05 · 08:46

In another post, a comment said that if Mr. Trump is elected, half the people who voted for him would deny it in a year. In attempting to reply, I tried to say that many of them would say that they were just happy to be rid of the n-word, but I actually used the n-word. My comment was rejected because of that.

In a liberal blog, shouldn’t we be free to express ourselves? In this case, I was using a word to help describe a kind of person who would use the word, but I think if a person wants to use hate speech AS hate speech here, he should be able to do so. The ability to express opinions is what the First Amendment is all about, isn’t it? Doesn’t a liberal blog support the First Amendment?

Go ahead, call me a racist for quoting a racist. Or better yet, let’s have a conversation about political correctness.

If you think today's polls bring good news, one of us is deluded

Dashue

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Friday August 05, 2016 · 6:26 AM PDT

2016/08/05 · 06:26

Am I the only person who finds the latest polls appalling? Have you considered that these polls tell us that 40% of the American electorate — 40 percent of the nation that elected Washington and Madison and Lincoln and FDR — is committed to voting for a man who cannot decide whether he admires Gaddafi as much as he admires Saddam Hussein? Have you considered that 40 percent of this one nation with liberty and justice for all approves of the man who proposes the effective prohibition of an entire religion? A man who will order the carpet-bombing of cities? A man who will require the soldiers of the army of the United States of America to commit war crimes? A man who displays all the earmarks of an incipient strongman, not a presidential candidate?

Which is more terrifying:

— The possibility that Putin’s Candidate becomes President and commits these atrocities?

— Or the fact that 4 out of every 10 people in this country intend to vote for him?

— Or the fact that a slightly less repugnant, more discretely racist, more politically polished version of this subterranean Morlock (but one with similarly tyrannical aspirations) might easily be on the other side of the electoral balance sheet?

These poll numbers are not good news. They are indications that America has lost its soul. They are the harbingers of an America lead by someone to the right of President Ted Cruz.

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