Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)You would seem to allow -- in principle, mind you -- free expression of ideas, but in practice would ban them from being referenced or linked on this board on certain vaguely defined rules held by you that they aren't (in your mind) Left-liberal or redistributive enough. Well, even if we adopt that rule, different people's standards for what constitutes progressive ideas differ. So, who decides what's suitable for DU? You? Me? A jury? Admin?
Personally, I like to decide such things for myself, and accept that others have different ideas and notions about what is good and just and true. So, I rarely try to silence them, even if they upset me. By the same light, I would expect to be treated the same way. That sort of social compact and tolerance, I believe, is the only rule that's going to work in a large community of expression. Taking this a step further, if you accept that, the only sort of discourse that one should ban is that which disrupts the free exchange of ideas - in other words, censors should be banned. Do you understand the dilemma you and shira are creating?