[MCP] Lafe's Rejected Post

[Lafe Taylor]

I see this forum is a joke.  Please post what I said and let everyone  
see what I said.


Lafe Taylor
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On Nov 14, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Paul C. Gorski wrote:

> Hello, all.
>
> To clarify this, I did not reject Lafe's post because he was being =20
> offensive. If that was the case, I would've rejected many posts by =20
> many people over the last few days.
>
> I rejected it because he used an extremely derogatory term  
> referring =20
> to gay and lesbian people, which is clearly against the groundrules  
> =20
> established for this discussion group.
>
> As those of you who have been on this list for a while know, I  
> almost =20
> never reject posts, and only do so in one of three situations:
>
> 1. the use of very derogatory terms or hate speech (and yes, I have  
> to =20
> do some interpreting here, but the language Lafe used was very  
> clearly =20
> derogatory, although he says he didn't realize it)
>
> 2. when posts are only direct personal attacks--attacking people  
> and =20
> name-calling as opposed to attacking and challenging ideas (and I'm  
> =20
> VERY liberal with interpeting this--as you can see there have been =20
> many posts the past couple days that have toed this line)
>
> 3. when posts were clearly intended only for a single person and =20
> mistakenly sent to the list
>
> Paul
>
>
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