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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8502850" data-attributes="member: 6778210">I mean, the blog migrated to the Washington Post and Reason. That's where I'm familiar with it.You hate bards, but your loquaciousness indicates that is definitely a form of self-loathing.But more to the point, I didn't say that the slippery slope is to be completely dismissed, but rather that it shouldn't be taken out of hand. In this case, I'm not sure it applies given the difference in scale and divisiveness. I simply disagree that this is one small push down the hill into simply removing the content. I think an educational gesture like OP suggested is far more effective at stifling momentum for that than simply doing nothing out of fear of the slippery slope.Yeah, but I feel like the worry of sliding into complete banning prevents proper education in a number of ways, not the least of which putting up a disclaimer or writing articles as to why these things are problematic. To create education, you're better off giving people direction at the sources of these things so that they understand what they are.I dunno, I think they are maybe more appropriate to the "not banning" argument? Not to get too deep into it for obvious reason, but they are arguing for the ability to use these things to carry the full impact and meaning of the words in an educational and legal setting. To me, that rings pertinent to keeping such things around, but putting educational structures around them. Obviously these are far lesser stakes, but I suppose this struck me better as an actual argument to keep them, rather than a fear that they'll be removed.</blockquote>

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