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In the US, both liberal and conservative sides get to yell and make a fuss when something is offensive to them. Here on the Salon board, things like articulate and uppidity have been condemned as racist when used to describe Obama.
So the right blows a gasket when you attack what THEY consider sacred, namely religion. For us, it is equality.
So I am flabbergasted that Ms. Marcotte refuses to acknowledge that she needed to be have been prepared for the backlash against her. I am not sure if this is about woman. This is not a case about free speech. No state intervened to ban her speech. But she needed to have used some common sense in fully perceiving the new role she had taken on.
She was right to resign. She did not belong there.
