Reply #46: having been busted more than once [View All]

[leftofthedial]

for making far less abusive statements in religious threads, for example, I must agree.

There is a protected class of hate speech here at DU. This thread proves it. Posts 11 and 17 are absolutely hate speech. There is no other suitable description. As you said, substitute ANY ethnic or regional group for "Southerner" in those posts--Arab, Jew, Christian, European, Black--and those messages would have been deleted within minutes.

Maybe part of the problem is that true liberals don't hit the "Alert" button and run crying to the mods everytime someone calls us a "bad" name.