discussionist is a misogynist pit hole - vulgar language

[Ms. Toad]

158. The discussionist is a place where the full range of political opinion can be discussed.

Last edited Tue Sep 2, 2014, 01:29 AM - Edit history (1)

The rape threats you were complaining about were the actions of a hateful individual, of which there are many on the internet including both on discussionist and here on DU. In response to that vile hatred, Discussionist members (1) unanimously hid the posts and (2) the admins banned the poster. In other words, the actions that can be attributed to Discussionist in response to the misogyny were exactly what should have happened.

But instead of acknowledging that discussionist responded appropriately to extreme misogyny, you dragged the individual troll's actions over here to slam discussionist and attributed to discussionist the actions that were universally condemned by discussionist members and admins. That is the equivalent of blasting DU because the death threat guy signs up repeatedly and occasionally manages to post even more vile stuff here before being sent back into oblivion.

The threats shouldn't have been made. They were vile and unacceptable - and unquestionably mysogynistic. But they are the actions of an individual troll, not discussionist - and discussionist responded appropriately and unanimously.

I happen to think that it is important to have places where conversations across the political spectrum can take place. Discussionist is not perfect - it was bound to attract trolls from both sides who like stirring sh*t, and it has. But there are also some good conversations which happen there. I expect there will be more -and I get pretty fed up with people who clearly aren't interested in those conversations posting a thread a day or so here slamming the effort.

If discussionist had not responded appropriately, I would still think you should address it on discussionist - not here. But I would have been more sympathetic - it was slamming discussionists (as one more in a never ending series of threads slamming discussionist) for the vile actions of a troll to which discussionist responded appropriately that bothered me.