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ellenrr (2,572 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026050993

I was just asked to serve on a jury re an anti-semitic statement it definitely WAS antisemitic

"The Jews who control this board"

but I excused myself,
bec. - maybe instead of hiding it, it is better to let it stand and declaim it as an anti-semitic statement?

I remember the debate about allowing the book Tom Sawyer to be read, bec. it uses the N-word.
I was in favor of using the book as a way of showing racist attitudes.

I think.... this was a DU jury?

Erich Bloodaxe BSN (5,698 posts)
2. Hiding doesn't actually prevent you from reading comments. It merely adds a step of opening the comment up. So I don't see any reason not to hide such a comment. If there's even a single comment nested under it already, you can alo use that to add your comments about how disgusting the hidden comment is as well.

Coventina (11,837 posts)
3. Yikes! Sounds like a troll for sure.

Yeah... I am sure it was...

Action_Patrol (246 posts)
9. Results

On Wed Jan 7, 2015, 10:02 AM an alert was sent on the following post:

"d"emocracy buried
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026050954

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

THis is the fourth time this troll has posted this, including thehorrendous antisemitic comment about "Jews running this place". Please hide

JURY RESULTS

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Wed Jan 7, 2015, 10:10 AM, and the Jury voted 7-0 to HIDE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: There is certainly merit to the OP, and the poster makes some valid points..... Then goes over the top.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: "Jews running this place" - WTF. No. Just. NO.
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Troll. Take a DU vacation.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

Brickbat (16,719 posts)
12. Wow.

What was the post?

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I posted this in LBN Tue Jan 6, 2015, 08:20 AM:

Rabbi Calls for Jewish Leaders to Defend Dershowitz Against Rape Claim


Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a prolific political and cultural commentator who appears sporadically on cable news, wrote an op-ed in the New York Observer Tuesday morning calling on Jews everywhere to defend attorney Alan Dershowitz, who was accused of sexual assault in a recent civil suit against billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein.

Boteach, as did Dershowitz himself, likened the accusation to the many scurrilous defamations the Jews have historically suffered, ranging from accusations of blood libel to Palestinian genocide, and added that Dershowitz has already been tested by the scores of death threats he receives for his defense of Israel. He called upon Jews to defend Dershowitz as if from these attacks.

“Where are the Jewish leaders to rise to Mr. Dershowitz’s defense?” Boteach asked. “I would like to believe that, at the very least, what Alan Dershowitz deserves is the gratitude of his community. And that means that you stand up for a man when he is down, especially when not a shred of evidence has been brought against him.”

“I have always wondered at the Jewish community in times of scandal,” he added. “We run from it like the plague.”

Boteach defended the attorney from the charges, despite the fact that “there is no way any of us can know if any of this is true.”



Full article http://www.mediaite.com/online/rabbi-calls-for-jewish-leaders-to-defend-dershowitz-against-rape-claim/

First of all, check out the bolded (by me) line: I don't know if he did it, but let's defend him anyway. WTF???

Secondly, check the time of the article and the time that I posted it: Perfectly fine for LBN.

Third: DUer azurnoir, who has locked a thread of mine in the past, didn't do so here, merely reminding me to correct the link I had provided, which was promptly done.

Fourth: After 23 replies and 2 recs, the thread was locked as "Off-topic" by Sissyk, who has not responded to my hours-ago request to unlock.

i then posted this in Good Reads. This time, my words were hidden outright!

Question: How was this thread off-topic? Bill Cosby threads have been posted without interference. I myself posted a thread about Jameis Winston and Ben Roethlisberger's swept-under-the-rug sex assaults, with no resulting problem. Why is it only in THIS case, where a prominent, politically-active rabbi is urging other Jews to "circle the wagons" around an even more prominent "Member of the Tribe," as elleng herself put it---why is it only now that DU puts it foot down?

I now, sadly, know the answer to that question: This "Democratic" Underground is a Jew-controlled website, where one is permitted to discuss ANYTHING about ANYONE, except for Gawd's Chosen Ones!

I can only hope that the Jews who run this place take a moment, just a moment, to consider the FACT that they are doing more to promote antisemitism than could any hundred David Dukes! 

Yeah... obvious troll...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

The OP was alerted on, not the one posted but a different one. I was on the 0-7 jury

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I love the title of the thread.
It should be a required option on all polls in the Cave.
I am in some state of shock that a lib (ellenrr) willingly of her own volition ever recused herself from anything.
Or any lib for that matter.
They froth at the chance to spout their invective.
It's almost an involuntary reflex with them.