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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (52465)	10/25/2006 11:15:14 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

>>I think the point made was that the "liberal" threads are the least tolerant. They show bookmark/ban ratios of 3:1, 4:1 and 2:1, whereas the right of center threads have far fewer bans. Care to explain that result?<< Alan - Well, I was agreeing with his conclusion, which was that the centrist threads were the most tolerant. There could be a lot of different explanations for the fact that there seem to be more bans on the left of center threads. Perhaps the conservatives who have been banned have more of a tendency to get personal in their attacks? I'm not saying that's so, but it's one possibility. In any case, I don't think this particular ratio can be used to make a definitive case one way or the other, nor can it necessarily be applied to the world at large. I have found that there is a lot of personal invective thrown into political discussions on SI, which is one reason why I don't tend to participate in them too much. - Allen