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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
OK, good point about the insults. Nobody should be insulted in a mean-spirited way. So, how about my points re the open season on Catholics and Wiccans here at DCUM? Why aren't you butthurt on behalf of DCUM's Catholics and Wiccans? You're even in a position to do something about it. (Again, I'm not Catholic or Wiccan.)[/quote]

I have repeatedly asked for posters to use the "report" button to let me know about anti-Catholic posts. They almost never get reported. I have not read the Wiccan thread and there have been no messages from that thread reported. I can't do anything about posts of which I am unaware. I want to make one distinction between Islam and Catholicism. There is a Catholic Church with a structure and hierarchy and so on. I consider criticism of that institution to be fair game (unless the criticism has no basis in reality). There is not a similar institution within Islam. Therefore, criticism tends to target an amorphous "Islam" or "Muslims" which would be similar to criticizing "Catholics". All such cases are likely to raise my hackles.

If you were the one who asked about Landon, I repeatedly intervene in Landon threads. I even discovered paid sock-puppets in a Landon thread (one of my proudest moments). 
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I used the report button myself, a number of times. Nothing happened. It led me to believe that the threshold for insulting Catholics, or religious people in general, is higher than the scatological and much higher than your average Charlie Hebdo cartoon. I assume others have had the same experience, although I can't prove that.

Now I just ignore them or amuse myself by toying with them, because they aren't very bright. Meanwhile the Catholic hater wrecked the Wiccan thread, go figure.[/quote]

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