Reply #58: I don't know if "acceptable" is the right word. [View All]

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But it's common, more or less in both directions, too. "Murderous pigs" is nothing special, and similar slurs are applied to Israelis and Palestinians liberally from time to time, especially if there are some recently dead people at issue, which is most of the time.

The basic rule is you are not allowed to flame other posters, directly; and people do toy with the edges of that prohibition too.