I have heard some folks at Nutkinland bash the EN Forums from time to time. I'm never offended. Sometimes folks do it just to be silly or ironic. Sometimes they do it to show how "not with the masses" they are. Whatever the reason, I don't get hurt by it.
When you hear a Nutkinlander spout off with a gross generalization like "EN World posters are sub-moronic monkey men" you just have to say, "Am I a sub-moronic monkey man?" If so, suck it up. If not, then they're not talking about you.
EN World and Nutkinland has, and always will have, a special relationship. It's not because of the crap that goes on in Fighting Words. It's not because of the filthy, filthy language. It's not because of the not-hardly-veiled-at-all-man's-love-for-his-fellow-men talk. It's not because of the ignorant opinions of the subset of Nutkinlanders who never did start out knowing the EN World forums like you all do but think they can just judge things they have no knowledge of.
No, it's in spite of these things. It's because of a squirrel. A squirrel with a dream and a zombie bride. It's because of the Pantheon, now faded into the mists of time. It's because of the friendships made at EN World that couldn't blossom with my tyranical grandmother always looking over people's shoulders. It's because of the love.
That said, I can totally understand that there would be another group who would like to civilly discuss religion and/or politics with other EN Worlders, and since you can't do that here, and you really can't do it at Nutkinland without tripping over the f-word every other sentence, I think the Yahoo group proposed sounds like a great alternative.