@ M. Spector: Your comment illustrates precisely the type of intellectual dishonesty that prevails when people obstinately and blindly adhere to their ideological moorings without risk, compassion, nor ethicality. Your brief statement makes two patently false statements. First, if you can't distinguish between DiNovo's and Shurman's position, you're simply being wilfully disingenuous. Second, no one, not even Shurman (at least that I'm aware) has called for IAW to be shut down, censored, etc. Other than moral suasion (as if Shurman would have any such thing over the deranged Left), there is no power being exercised over IAW. Go crazy, continue foreclosing real debate by using a needlessly inflammatory and restrictive term while claiming to do so in the name of free speech.

What's worse, as someone who identifies with Marxist thought and upholds the noble goal of democratic socialism, this experience with the deranged Left has made me realize that sometimes the only difference between Babble and Small Dead Animals is the number of visitors per day. And I don't say this lightly, as Rabble has for years been a point of pride and reference for me.