No Hate Speech Allowed
This Blogger's Declaration of Independence

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
January 4, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/398/no-hate-speech-allowed

Excerpt:

For the second time since I began blogging, I've decided not to publish a comment, not because the writing is illiterate or filthy with curses, (I've jettisoned some of those in the past), but because, like Israel, I've decided that "Enough is enough." I am tired of putting up with the written equivalent of screaming street corner hate speech at my own blog.

I have had enough of those commentators who sound like Norman Finkelstein or David Irving, who cloak their Big Lies in sarcastic, intellectual sound-bites or who imperiously drone on for hundreds, even thousands of words. Often, they sound "logical." Sometimes, like Finkelstein, they pretend to great scholarship by presenting many footnotes.

A footnote does not a scholar make.

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