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2. The forum will have a PC bias. This isn't censorship of ideas. It means posters making an effort to avoid offence to vulnerable groups. Some very extreme topics won't be allowed but in general if there's some political merit to the topic then it's welcome in this forum. What is or isn't PC will change with time - discussion about it will be welcome.
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
Discuss away.
As I was saying, before you deleted my post ...
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Originally Posted by whosnext
Generally, to promote a healthy and viable environment in tune with the forum's rules and objectives, the moderators of every 2+2 forum decide what types of posts and links are permitted in that forum. Often the decision is not evident until a "disapproved" post or link appears and then the moderators remove the post and/or link.
In this forum, to promote a healthy and viable environment in tune with the forum's rules and objectives, the moderators have decided to not allow direct links to the Breitbart website. This decision was made in light of that website's pervasive and systematic slanting of articles to bring great offense to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
In short, it is the opinion of the moderators that the preponderance of material appearing on that website would violate the forum's PC rule if the material were originally posted here.
Of course, we fully expect content from that website will be referenced and discussed vigorously in this forum, especially to the extent that the content is relevant to the current government's policies. We are only prohibiting direct links to that website.
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to promote a healthy and viable environment
To promote a healthy and viable environment for this forum, which subject is politics, there needs to be a culture of logic and reason, and journalistic/publishing standards.
Do you have any experience with College or University? Have you ever been assigned to write an essay? If so, you'll notice that you are required to provide citations to support claims that you make, or to support critical analysis you make about other publications.
I have done several critical analyses in College, and I find them quite fun. On this subject, a poster in this very thread made the claim that Breitbart was a good source of information or news. I asserted that Breitbart is not a good source, and in fact that Breitbart is not a credible source of news or journalism, and provided two examples supporting my assertion.
Breitbart had published an article stating a falsehood about Global warming, and Breitbart had published another article stating a falsehood, that Donald Trump won 75% of the popular vote in a landslide popular vote victory. I provided links to publications that were critical analyses of these Breitbart publications, and I also provided links to the original Breitbart articles. This is in accordance with journalistic standards. If you do a critical analysis on a publication, you directly provide the publication as a citation. This is a journalistic standard.
Banning posting Breitbart links, by asserting they some how, magically violate the PC rule, which states:
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2. The forum will have a PC bias. This isn't censorship of ideas. It means posters making an effort to avoid offence to vulnerable groups. Some very extreme topics won't be allowed but in general if there's some political merit to the topic then it's welcome in this forum. What is or isn't PC will change with time - discussion about it will be welcome.
Is absolutely preposterous.
I made a critical analysis of Breitbart by asserting they are not a credible source of information, because they report falsehoods, and I provided two examples of falsehoods they had reported, and cited directly the articles published by Breitbart, in accordance with journalistic standards, and chezlaw arbitrarily and unjustly deleted my post, under the assertion that it magically violates the PC rule, without explaining specifically how it violates the PC rule.
Can anybody out there explain how linking to Breitbart specifically violates the PC rule?
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