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el_bryanto

(11,804 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 03:39 PM Jun 2014

Do you feel like gendered or homophobic insults towards really bad people are acceptable at DU? [View all]

While this does relate to the Rude Pundit - let's take the quotation factor out of it - if a DUer were to say words parallel to what the Rude Pundit said would that be acceptable to you.

Bryant

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Do you feel like gendered or homophobic insults towards really bad people are acceptable at DU? [View all] el_bryanto Jun 2014 OP

Absolutely not. NuclearDem Jun 2014 #1

Is this a push poll? Stuckinthebush Jun 2014 #2

You've got a weird definition of push poll. NuclearDem Jun 2014 #4

I think the DU definition of a push poll is a poll I don't want to answer because it might make me el_bryanto Jun 2014 #7

lol redqueen Jun 2014 #10

No it's a poll with an agenda Stuckinthebush Jun 2014 #11

OK - what ideas can you not express without using the word C***? How about that? nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #12

No, that's bad too Stuckinthebush Jun 2014 #13

What ideas do you require C*** to express? nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #15

It is a title of the Great Mother Goddess and has been for millennium. There - an idea Hestia Jun 2014 #16

Fair enough. nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #18

Better Stuckinthebush Jun 2014 #19

Perhaps a better description is "bad poll" Stuckinthebush Jun 2014 #9

I would take it one step further ... etherealtruth Jun 2014 #3

Sometimes. Gormy Cuss Jun 2014 #5

Honestly Bobbie Jo Jun 2014 #6

And this thread should be locked for falling under the heading of 'Sport.' Scurrilous Jun 2014 #21

I like fighting-words. Iggo Jun 2014 #8

For people that don't know, it can be really easy to cook a pork roast correctly snooper2 Jun 2014 #14

The filthiest language is free of all swear words or slurs. The filthiest language is in law and in Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #17

How would you have worded the poll to include those options? nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #20

Well, look at certain words an their origins... WARNING, YOU WILL SEE EXAMPLE LANGUAGE Dr Hobbitstein Jun 2014 #22