Reply #171: You missed my point. [View All]

I've seen many Christians say that even the worst of DU hasn't offended them. Of course, there's the other extreme where some folks have complained bitterly whenever anyone uses a foul word on DU. If we had to water our discourse down so that no one would ever be offended, this would be the most boring place on the web.

I think there's a fine system at DU in dealing with over-the-top posts. Use it. If you're worried about the few minutes that something might be visible in a major forum before being deleted or moved, I have to tell you, your priorities are seriously out of whack. You could bring probably a hundred times more people INTO the party by simply volunteering to register people to vote for a couple of hours than would ever be scared AWAY from the party by a post on an anonymous message board. For fuck's sake, look at Free Republic. Nobody there whines about scaring people away from the Republican Party, and there are atheists and Christians aplenty there, too. Plus the absolute worst I've seen on DU (a troll post that said they were happy American soldiers were dying) is NOTHING compared to the worst of FR.