2nd Re: [Boston-editorial] Screening comments

[Matthew Williams]

Hello all --

A quick question about something I did about which I'd like feedback. I 
hide the offensive, transphobic comments the poster was calling our 
attention to. However, someone responded to them, explaining what 
transgenderism is actually about. In doing so, they quoted the 
offensive comments, which are below:

"A transgender lesbian is someone who woke up one morning after the 
operation and said oops."

"I gues that makes Feinberg a ..... "Kyke"

I left the post up with a note that the author was responding to now 
hidden posts, but deleted the offensive comments she was quoting. 
Normally, we don't delete material from people's posts, but I was 
deleting quotes and left the substance of the post intact. Now, should 
I have done this? Or should I go paste these comments back in? Or 
should I past them back in and hide the whole post?

It felt like the right thing to do, but it didn't quite fit with 
policy, so I wanted to check in with people.

-- Matt

On Apr 22, 2005, at 3:38 PM, steph simard wrote:

> In the open newswire post "Colorado State University attempts to
> muzzle transgender lesbian Leslie Feinberg..." (4/20/05) there are
> offensive and transphobic comments that I believe go against your
> Principles of Unity, and should therefore be deleted.
>
> - Steph Simard
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