Big Titted one has no date. Wants to come up with forbidden words list.

[dutch508]

BainsBane (26,168 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025129963

Can we review what is acceptable speech on DU?
I feel the need for a list. My recollection of things that we are told we cannot discuss: privilege, racism by anyone except Republicans, rape, violence against women, any issue concerning women's rights other than abortion. We aren't allowed to make any reference to white people, even when speaking about a Republican like Bill Bennett, because that makes some other white people upset. Talking about racism and sexism "divides" Democrats so it is explicitly forbidden. We can't mention MRAs because some have decided that somehow applies to all men, though I'm thinking a lot of men don't see it that way. Still the righteous indignation about making misogynists look bad ensues.

What is righteous speech that must be protected at all costs: racist, homophobic, and sexist and/or misogynistic slurs, as specified in vivid detail in another thread. Basically the most vulgar insults against anyone who isn't white male or elderly are not only acceptable, expressing them is central to liberalism. Whereas those members who suggest that those segments of society deserve respect equal to the minority white male population are just like conservatives--because we all know how much respect conservatives have for LGBT, people of color, and women.  And of course insulting segments of the population based on how they are born doesn't divide Democrats. That division only occurs when feminists and people of color are allowed to speak about issues that they erroneously believe matter.


Oh, and it's not okay to suggest that someone exercise restraint and avoid bigoted slurs because it amounts to censorship, but censoring that opinion about restraint is not only acceptable, it is essential to democracy. In fact, the Republic cannot stand if people are confronted with opinions with which they disagree.

I'm sure I'm forgetting others. Please fill me in so I can conduct myself accordingly in the future. I'm told that freedom of speech requires that certain disagreements never be uttered. I hate to say the wrong thing and ruin our constitution and democracy itself. 

Frank... you need to take one for the team and fill her in.

I'm sorry... we all voted on it and it has to be you. Good luck.

[Chris_]

BainsBane (26,168 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025129963

Can we review what is acceptable speech on DU?

I feel the need for a list.

Of course you do, you horrible, controlling, small-minded piece of shit.

**** you.

[Carl]

There is not a one of them more mentally or emotionally mature then a 5 year old.

[franksolich]

Frank... you need to take one for the team and fill her in.

I'm sorry... we all voted on it and it has to be you. Good luck.

Uh huh.

Not with those watermelons.

[dutch508]

Uh huh.

Not with those watermelons.

I'm sorry, Frank. You've forced me to add a poll to this thread.

Please, everyone. For the sake of the planet! Vote!

[Big Dog]

BainsBane (26,168 posts)

Can we review what is acceptable speech on DU?
I feel the need for a list.

Alex, now you're just acting like a Nazi.

Not a hot Nazi like this:


More like this kind of Nazi:

[98ZJUSMC]

Frank, do it for the children.  Salute the flag, think of the good 'ol USA and dive right in.

[JohnnyReb]

Words forbidden to be used by DUmmies.....in order of importance.

!. WORK

2. JOB

3. SELF RELIANCE

4. INDEPENDENCE

5. ................

[txradioguy]

Uh huh.

Not with those watermelons.

At some point my friend...everyone has their turn in the barrel.

This time is yours. 

[franksolich]

At some point my friend...everyone has their turn in the barrel.

This time is yours. 

You know, just before I came to this thread, I was already thinking about it, and wondering if I should post a poll.

Really.

The poll would ask whether one preferred to hop around in the sack with the BainsBane primitive, or with the dumbgirl primitive.

And if one's a woman, whether one preferred to hop around in the sack with drunken Bill or MrsCorpio.

[Carl]

You know, just before I came to this thread, I was already thinking about it, and wondering if I should post a poll.

Really.

The poll would ask whether one preferred to hop around in the sack with the BainsBane primitive, or with the dumbgirl primitive.

And if one's a woman, whether one preferred to hop around in the sack with drunken Bill or MrsCorpio.

That poll would require this to even think about.

[Dori]

And if one's a woman, whether one preferred to hop around in the sack with drunken Bill or MrsCorpio.

 

[franksolich]

Well now, that's no more difficult than for a guy trying to decide upon the BainsBane primitive or the dumbgirl primitive.

[BattleHymn]

Well now, that's no more difficult than for a guy trying to decide upon the BainsBane primitive or the dumbgirl primitive.

Be sure to include a third option in your poll, "Death".

[JohnnyReb]

Be sure to include a third option in your poll, "Death".

Chicken.....gonna take the easy way out........save me a seat on that bus.

[franksolich]

Chicken.....gonna take the easy way out........save me a seat on that bus.

Remember, my objection to the BainsBane primitive isn't so much to her physical abnormality--even with that, she can be reasonably aesthetic--but simply because her attitude of ostensible intellectual superiority is off-putting.

[BattleHymn]

Alex,  I'll give you a CC alternative to a forbidden words list-  how about a list of useful phrases for you?


"No thanks, I'm full."

"I'll just have one, thanks."

"Only one drink, thank you."

I'm sure some of the other people here can come up with other helpful phrases.

Alex, I know your initial response will be to thank us for any of our suggested phrases, but no need, as we've seen your picture already and know how difficult it is for a compliment, or indeed anything, to just fall out of your mouth.   

[Ptarmigan]

BainsBane (26,168 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025129963

Can we review what is acceptable speech on DU?
I feel the need for a list. My recollection of things that we are told we cannot discuss: privilege, racism by anyone except Republicans, rape, violence against women, any issue concerning women's rights other than abortion. We aren't allowed to make any reference to white people, even when speaking about a Republican like Bill Bennett, because that makes some other white people upset. Talking about racism and sexism "divides" Democrats so it is explicitly forbidden. We can't mention MRAs because some have decided that somehow applies to all men, though I'm thinking a lot of men don't see it that way. Still the righteous indignation about making misogynists look bad ensues.

What is righteous speech that must be protected at all costs: racist, homophobic, and sexist and/or misogynistic slurs, as specified in vivid detail in another thread. Basically the most vulgar insults against anyone who isn't white male or elderly are not only acceptable, expressing them is central to liberalism. Whereas those members who suggest that those segments of society deserve respect equal to the minority white male population are just like conservatives--because we all know how much respect conservatives have for LGBT, people of color, and women.  And of course insulting segments of the population based on how they are born doesn't divide Democrats. That division only occurs when feminists and people of color are allowed to speak about issues that they erroneously believe matter.


Oh, and it's not okay to suggest that someone exercise restraint and avoid bigoted slurs because it amounts to censorship, but censoring that opinion about restraint is not only acceptable, it is essential to democracy. In fact, the Republic cannot stand if people are confronted with opinions with which they disagree.

I'm sure I'm forgetting others. Please fill me in so I can conduct myself accordingly in the future. I'm told that freedom of speech requires that certain disagreements never be uttered. I hate to say the wrong thing and ruin our constitution and democracy itself.

Well it is DU. What do you expect? Why are you even posting there? Sounds more like hear me roar.

[wasp69]

Of course you do, you horrible, controlling, small-minded piece of shit.

**** you.

I think she was trying to be sarcastic.

[dutch508]

She failed.

[NHSparky]

Uh huh.

Not with those watermelons.

Coach, I don't know how familiar you are with baseball, but there was a gent back in the day who played first base for the Chicago Cubs by the name of Mark Grace.

Not only was he a pretty decent ballplayer, even by Cubs/Diamondbacks standards, he was a funny guy.  But one thing he DID know was "slumpbusting."  I heard the interview he did with Jim Rome when he talked about nailing a slumpbuster.  I looked it up, and sure enough, it exists in print:

"A slumpbuster is if a team's in a slump, or if you personally are in a slump, you gotta find the fatest, gnarliest, grossest chick and you just gotta lay the wood to her. And when you do that, you're just gonna have instant success. And it could also be called jumping on a grenade for the team."

Coach, my good man, I think you know what you gotta do.

[thundley4]

Coach, I don't know how familiar you are with baseball, but there was a gent back in the day who played first base for the Chicago Cubs by the name of Mark Grace.

Not only was he a pretty decent ballplayer, even by Cubs/Diamondbacks standards, he was a funny guy.  But one thing he DID know was "slumpbusting."  I heard the interview he did with Jim Rome when he talked about nailing a slumpbuster.  I looked it up, and sure enough, it exists in print:

Coach, my good man, I think you know what you gotta do.

Mark Grace was a funny guy, too. A guy I work with went to a Cubs/Cardinals game in St. Louis and saw Grace at a bar after the game.  The guy and one other had on Cards shirts, but all 4 asked Grace for his autograph. Even though they were all Cards fans, he charged the 2 wearing Cards shirts $4 each, which happened to be the price of the beer he was drinking.

[dutch508]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0I6mhZ5wMw[/youtube]




Trust me, Frank... I am here to help.

[Mr Mannn]

This is probably a desperate cry for help.
BainsBane needs to get laid.   and make sammiches. but mostly get laid.

Being a shrieking harpy isn't helping her one bit. We need to burn a mole and introduce Jugs to Steve Numbers. It may not be a match made in Heaven, but they will both calm down a bit with their posting.

and it won't be permanent either. Once they sober up and see each other...they beat a path out the cheap motel door.

Please help, give a can of Keystone beer to the CC matchmaker fund. Give today and make the magic happen.

[dutch508]

Think of it!
Frank, the rascally, old bachelor playwright living alone on the wild of the Nebraska savannah and Bainsbane, frosty man hating quazi-intellectual who is really a nympho, finding love and each other through to power of the interwebs...