I'm old enough to remember serious discussions about "colored only" and "white only" establishments. One of my first little paperback political dirges was written by Alan Stang, entitled "It's Very Simple".
The argument proferred was exactly the same one Gameface and others in here have argued.... "If it's your house, it's your rules". "You can run your forum the way you want, because it's yours."
I did this bit in the "Bake My Cake" thread some months... a year?,..... ago.
My answer is, still.... "If it's open to the Public, yah gotta accommodate the Public"
I advance the thesis that political purists hell-bent on purifying the public platforms of unwanted political views, are in the intellectual sense, a kind of "racist" equivalent.
What is the difference between melanin skin content and political opinion content?//
Who gets to decide what the "rules" need to be???? Why should we let prejudices of any kind about other people become walls of separation?
You are 100% right. Bush II was the subject of weeks end on end of political "racism" charges for his failure to effectively address the catastrophe of Katrina.
He was, after, all, one of those blue-blooded globalist world managerial wonks who for all his life went with the flow of "culling the herd". Which has always been front and center the net effect of social progress....globalism. The elites have their own ways of being above it all, but the folks on the edge of survival really have never been any more concern to the globalist elites than....
the homeless along the LA River ditch.