Skinner's response, the admin chooses to not clarify if MI is covered under new insensitivity rule

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2. A further statement from Skinner, which is stronger, and my reply to that.

This exchange can be seen at the thread in ATA http://www.democraticunderground.com/125910848

Skinner: I just clarified that in fact it is not permitted.

Bigotry against the mentally ill is not permitted in the rules as currently written.

If juries fail and do not remove it we will rewrite the rule.


Me: I accept it as your approach.

I think leaving it the hands of jurors is asking for the existence of a community standard that is regularly breached. The popularity of using stigmatizing language as adjectives within the chauvinism of the "us" good "them" bad nature of discussing political opponents is, as I believe you know, very common on DU.

I respect that this is your decision to make, and I hope that the alerters whose actions are needed to demonstrate when juries fail on this issue will not be acted against.