Re: Amen
It is often not the joke
per se but the
inevitable political or religious argument that will follow certain jokes that makes it necessary to include them in the general ban on political and religious posts. This isn't some arbitrary rule, it is the fruit of long and bitter experience with the kind of flame wars this sort of thing once produced here, and observation of other boards that were either destroyed by such arguments or taken over by the to the point where only a minority of posts concerned the ostensible subject of the site. Ron and Parker decided they didn't want that here and drew a very clear line to stop it. There is no, "But it's just a joke" exception because there is
always somebody who is going to be offended or use it as a jumping off point for a discussion of the serious issues being mocked and then we're off to the races.
Hell, it is bad enough with all the pseudo-religious fights we've had around here over things like Mac vs. PC, DD vs. DTS, HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray, wooden blocks, high-priced cables and green magic markers. (Not to mention laserdisc vs. DVD, once upon a time...)
Joe
If you do a search for all my posts containing the word "socialism" and "socialist", you would see that me being offended by a critique of socialism is the pinnacle of humor present in this thread.
