However, although one might expect "human rights" to be inclusive of gender, race, class and religion, rabble yanks out three of these for special status. Since we've been discussing transgressions that have religious overtones, I'm wondering if rabble/babble might consider either making commensurate note of "freedom of religion" (and how about "freedom of thought") or folding the special cases back into human rights so that there's some recognition of equality amongst the rights.
Um, no. Writing "freedom of religion" into the rabble rules, would only be an open invitation to rightwing trolls everywhere to waste most our time fending off bigotted idiocy. We have learned the hard way, they only want to agitate not communicate. There may be a couple overzealous net nannies here at times, but this is a private message board where posting is a privilege and those who are on the left (what progressive originally meant, give or take) should naturally be favoured, if only because that was the original intent of this whole site -to provide some counter weight to our increasingly rightwing media oligarchy and allow progressives some outlet for our own views. Even if the term "progressive" has become progressively more empty by overuse and cooption, it shouldn't be that difficult to understand the shared underlying values -if you in fact share most those values. Rightwingers have every other venue to monopolize now.
