2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hedge Fund Titans Choosing Hillary Clinton Over Top Republicans [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)You're held to "your best judgment." I absolutely consider the TOS and the SOP when I do jury duty, but when context overrides the "offense," I do not hesitate to nullify. Sometimes, things that are obvious are just obvious. Telling a sexist "What for" (or in this case "fuck you" is, to my 'personal review' of the post and its context, an act of grace, not an act for which the poster should be excoriated. Calling a woman who plainly does not work in the sex industry and is not being afforded the title as a job description a "whore" is a sexist comment, blatant, and an attempt to be "too clever by half" by hiding behind the "cutesy" use of the word (e.g. 'fame whore,' or 'attention whore').
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I'd like to see the admins do some tombstoning when that kind of stuff pops up and survives a jury--sexist speech is hate speech, AFAIAC. Hope springs eternal.