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History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Rape threats are a dime a dozen on the internet. [View all]Does that mean I shouldn't patronize my grocer because he sells beets, fresh, canned and jarred?
If you really wanted them to stop selling them, then yes, you would boycott them and not buy until they stopped. That's how it works.
There are a lot of places I don't go anymore since becoming vegan, and a lot of entertainment I don't patronize anymore because of its misogyny and homophobia. There are parts I miss about all of it, but I'm willing to sacrifice that until changes get made.
You want--out of some entirely pointless "principle" -- the site owners to forgo a portion of their INCOME, the food on their plate, the cash that ensures their survival, so you can have some sort of stupid "satisfaction" by "controlling" nothing more than WHERE people say nasty things. You aren't going to stop them--you're just going to have a harder time tracking them.
Income being partly made off of some of the most vile racists and misogynists I've seen on the web.
That nastiness won't disappear if that site gets shut down
Nirvana fallacy.
Of course, we could always demand that the US government fire up an "internet police" to monitor objectionable content, and censor anything "offensive" to people--how does that sound?
Absolutely ridiculous. Me asking a private business owner to make changes to practices I find objectionable in no way means I have any interest in seeing government ban speech.
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Naaah. I can deal with the beets. I avoid them--I don't pick them up, I don't look at them,
MADem
Sep 2014
#17
What if your local grocer tolerates and employs individuals who threaten rape?
LanternWaste
Sep 2014
#29
Hell, I want all of my donations back at this point. Damn right there will never be another. n/t
JTFrog
Sep 2014
#9
I agree completely. The admins must take the initiative. This has gone too far.
CTyankee
Sep 2014
#7
Regardless of who it allows to post, Discussionist should have an explicit policy against
nomorenomore08
Sep 2014
#18