An open letter to Skinner (POSTED IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FORUM)

[thesquanderer]

176. Oh, right, I forgot about the alerter. So that's 5...

...since from jurist #6's comment, s/he seemed to be addressing the actual writer of those words, not your re-posting of them.

I'm also reminded of the maxim, not to attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, etc. I just think you're expecting a lot of the jurists who saw that post. I think most people's first impulse on reading the post would be to hide it, and one would have to take things a step or two further to decide to let it stand.

I also think someone else here had a point, about whether someone necessarily gets a free pass at posting something offensive, just to point out that someone else posted something offensive. I see why you'd want to; I also see why people might not automatically think it's just fine to do it. But it might have helped if you'd included more of your own context in the body of that post, to make your point more immediately clear.